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Emacs on an iPad

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Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by timlod »

I've done this as well in the past - worked pretty well with Blink (and a bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard)! Ultimately I missed some functionality, mostly viewing images, which are essential to my workflow, and not available in the terminal. Unfortunately at the time there was no remote desktop tool available for iOS (not sure if one exists now) which would be able to display a GUI client on the iPad through X11 forwarding.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by saagarjha »

> So first off, you cannot run Emacs directly

Hmm, my device disagrees:

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Re: Emacs on an iPad

#7

Post by monkin »

timlod wrote: post #3

I've done this as well in the past - worked pretty well with Blink (and a bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard)! Ultimately I missed some functionality, mostly viewing images, which are essential to my workflow, and not available in the terminal. Unfortunately at the time there was no remote desktop tool available for iOS (not sure if one exists now) which would be able to display a GUI client on the iPad through X11 forwardi…

Just to note: Blink Shell comes with built in image support.

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by _ph_ »

saagarjha wrote: post #6

> So first off, you cannot run Emacs directly Hmm, my device disagrees: File Edit Options Buffers Tools C Help #include int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } -UUU:**--F1 test.c All L5 (C/*l Abb

What is "your device"? and how do you run Emacs on it, if you are talking about an iPad?

Re: Emacs on an iPad

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Post by saagarjha »

_ph_ wrote: post #9
saagarjha wrote: post #6

> So first off, you cannot run Emacs directly Hmm, my device disagrees: File Edit Options Buffers Tools C Help #include int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } -UUU:**--F1 test.c All L5 (C/*l Abb

What is "your device"? and how do you run Emacs on it, if you are talking about an iPad?

This is an iPhone, I was too lazy to get out of bed and use an iPad. It's running Emacs in iSH, a-Shell or similar can probably do it too.
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