seg11 on nexus 7 :(
GNU Emacs ported to Android
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Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#12Just downloaded it. Here are a few things to note:
- 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.
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#13So? A Vim port's been out for a few months.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.a....
/dons my flame-retardant jacket
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#14Now the editor's kitchen sink also includes phone calls!
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is coincidentally likely why you can never have it on iOS (interpreted code and all...)
There's no rule in the App Store against interpreted code that's not downloaded.
While that's true, the restriction is done in such a way that there'd be no sane way for most people to get their .emacs or equivalent loaded onto the thing, which would make such a port beyond useless. Android's far looser restrictions mean there should be no such issues there.
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#16Good work but I have some issues with the concept. I mean using all the keyboard shortcuts must be a pain. Did they try to make it use the touch interface at all?
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#17So how do you enter the control sequences?
You shake it.
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#18So? A Vim port's been out for a few months. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.a... . /dons my flame-retardant jacket
And even longer on iPad, but these will only be useful when they can deal with ESC key. Vim without ESC is like Word without mouse.
Re: GNU Emacs ported to Android
#19Err....Emacs is probably a better OS than Android. :)
This is just silly. Emacs isn't an OS. It provides an API to some library and system calls, but it isn't even multi-threaded.
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.