Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good

Post by entrox » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 3:17 PM UTC

sroerick wrote: post #84

entrox wrote: post #51

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> I just haven't found Emacs to be particularly productive over SSH. IMO it works best on a local machine, there's just too much in the GUI which isn't as workable over terminal. Font rendering, images, clickable text links all take a hit. None are really deal breakers, but Emacs TUI just kind of feels like an afterthought. X11 over SSH doesn't feel responsive to me. But that's what tramp is for, it works nicely and…

How does it handle things like project heirarchy? Does folder browsing work? Can I use an org-roam database? I've used TRAMP to open single files over SSH, but it seems less functional than mounting with FUSE. But I haven't looked into it extensively. I am definitely going to build out that bash script for the second use case, that sounds excellent. Thanks, I had no idea you could do that

Post by skydhash » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:07 PM UTC

chuckadams wrote: post #86

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #44

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I agree with you on UX but disagree with everything else. If you use native elisp compilation, I find its speed to rival an average editor. Completions can be slow in lsp-mode but still faster than VSCode (and emacs itself ships with eglot, a less full featured alternative to lsp-mode, but may be faster. I haven't used it enough to judge.) This is due to shelling out to LSPs and the fact that not all LSPs are particu…

> Defaults emacs ships with today are really good. They're really not. It still defaults to opening a split window, still litters #foo# and foo~ files in the directory of whatever you're editing, and still comes with few language modes supported out of the box, let alone set up to automatically spawn and use LSP servers. Running a macro over a 10,000 line file is still incredibly slow on a 1-year old mac. Many common…

Post by PaulDavisThe1st » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:29 PM UTC

IceDane wrote: post #64

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You may have a very justified reason to switch, including nnot liking one aspect of emacs. But you are presenting it as a general flaw. Which people cannot obviously accept as it’s fine for them and they are not experiencing your issue (and as you know, everyone’s setup and workflow are different) As for the single threaded nature of it, it doesn’t bother me. Because what should be async already is. The only thing le…

> it doesn't bother me Right, so what you're really saying is that you are totally fine with your editor being unresponsive and janky during regular editing workflow, working with modern tooling, and that everyone else is just wrong for not feeling the same way. You do you. I lived with the same copium excuse for years, obviously, but I've moved past that now and into the year 20xx. I love emacs and truly wish that I…

Post by timonoko » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

wwfn wrote: post #94

timonoko wrote: post #73

Ultimate .emacs on termux, note python-hook (menu-bar-mode -1) (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) (setq inhibit-startup-echo-area-message t) (global-set-key "å" 'hippie-expand) (global-set-key "∆" 'toggle-truncate-lines) (global-set-key (kbd " ") 'toggle-truncate-lines) (xterm-mouse-mode 1) (global-set-key (kbd " ") 'scroll-up-command) (global-set-key (kbd " ") 'scroll-down-command) ; (global-set-key (kbd " ") 'scroll-up…

What keyboard are you using? one where å Å ∆ F12 are easily accessible? Is there a good interface to (GUI?) openscad from termux?

  file_to_watch=$1
  last_modified=$(stat -c %Y "$file_to_watch")
  while true; do
      current_modified=$(stat -c %Y "$file_to_watch")
      if [ "$last_modified" != "$current_modified" ]; then
          openscad $1 -o $1.stl
          last_modified="$current_modified"
      fi
      sleep 1  # Check every second
  done

Post by a-dub » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 5:06 PM UTC