If I open this on my phone, run vi , and type some text - how do I input so I can say :wq ?
you a a terminal-friendly keyboard for that. Get one on Fdroid.
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Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#32If I open this on my phone, run vi , and type some text - how do I input so I can say :wq ?
Use an alternative keyboard, like Hacker's Keyboard.
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboar...
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#33If I open this on my phone, run vi , and type some text - how do I input so I can say :wq ?
Some keyboards, like "hacker keyboard" (f-droid) have an escape key.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#34Neat! As a test I installed nano and python, then used pip to install flask, wrote a web application from nano and ran it from my phone... Opened it from my laptop and everything works like you'd expect. Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers! EDIT: I tried to get pyserial working (so my phone could talk to an arduino mini over USB) but hit the issue of not being able to access /dev for lack…
> Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers!
When vendors try so hard to lock everything down, yes, users tend to forget about what you can do once you have freedom to do what you want with your device.
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#35This is amazing. I've been dreaming of something like this forever for the iPhone. iOS restrictions are probably never going to be lifted, however. I get by with Panic's Coda terminal, which is great, but even though I have multiple remote servers, sometimes I'd like to run something on my local network, like ping, wireshark, etc Running mutt as a local mail client would be nice as well
I'm currently developing something like this for iOS, and I hope to have a basic proof of concept in the app store by the end of the year. https://github.com/tbodt/ish
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#36Neat! As a test I installed nano and python, then used pip to install flask, wrote a web application from nano and ran it from my phone... Opened it from my laptop and everything works like you'd expect. Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers! EDIT: I tried to get pyserial working (so my phone could talk to an arduino mini over USB) but hit the issue of not being able to access /dev for lack…
Cool!. Was that a non rooted phone?
Yep, just a standard Pixel.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#37Just wish they had keybase
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#38Wow. Given that this works with ChromeOS, this appears to give me what I've been looking for for a long time: something that makes a Chromebook a usable developer laptop. Now time to buy a Chromebook and try it out.
Just a warning, unless you get a "free" Chromebook from a hacker friend you're looking at probably $100 for a new one.
In the end you're way better off with a beater $50 eBay thinkpad like my favorite x201. Which supports LibreBoot, is a repairable real computer.
Thick is the new thin.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#39If I open this on my phone, run vi , and type some text - how do I input so I can say :wq ?
Press Vol+ and 'e'
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool!. Was that a non rooted phone?
Yep, just a standard Pixel.
Did you try the Termux-chroot package mentioned in https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Differences_from_Linux to see if /dev might work ?