- As soon as installed, the app will download emacs from a 3rd party repo. You have the option to specify your own, I picked the default one.
- The app consists apparently of a terminal emulator and a Bourne shell (clone?). emacs will reside inside this emulator and the shell.
- The app seems very young, segfaults are frequent. A common cause seems to be font-size. If font size != 20px at startup, app will segfault. (you can change it once the app is running).
- The buffers do not resize dynamically when I show/hide the keyboard. On my SGS2 in landscape mode, that leaves very little screen space for the buffers.
- The app greatly benefits from Hacker's Keyboard or any similar advanced keyboard.
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That would certainly exclude Emacs.
If your comment was meant as a hat tip to the Symbolics Genera system, that was a full-fledged OS, then there could be debate. I love Lisp and would dearly love to customize my Jelly Bean experience with it, but then we'd need to get into a discussion of what is really better, and 80's OS or Android.
No, that was Stallman working for LMI reproducing all of the Symbolics environment, because he was pissed that MIT sold the rights to work done in the AI lab to Symbolics.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.a....
/dons my flame-retardant jacket
Be interested to hear how usable you can make it. Whether you can remap keys or buttons to all the major modifiers.
Emacs 23 on the Nokia N900 is the reason I recently bought that phone even though Nokia is so uncool now and everything (works excellently, BTW).
It does not work from both Nexus 7 Tablet, and Google Nexus phone (latest)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketwork...
It's really shockingly great. It turns dealing with terminal access from your touchscreen from a complete hair-pulling disaster into something that I am merely disinclined to do.
All the ASCII keys are where you expect them to be. And switching between the keyboards at runtime is as simple as launching the included app. Definitely recommended to anyone who ever needs to (occasionally!) ssh from their phone or tablet.
Anybody have any ideas for what to do with Emacs on a phone?
iPhone: http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/
Android: https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android/wiki/
Android Fork: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matburt.mo...
Didn't try it myself.
