Emacs on the iPhone (2014) [video]

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Post by shizzy0 » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 2:35 PM UTC

Emacs on the iPhone (2014) [video]
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Post by drewolbrich » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

Thanks for posting. I love this kind of deadpan parody video.

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Post by dparen12 » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

Note that with tbodt's excellent ish app (https://ish.app/), you can get a real emacs installation on the iPhone. I made a quick writeup on it (https://dp12.github.io/posts/tippinglikeits1989).

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Post by MaxLeiter » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 10:13 PM UTC

dparen12 wrote: post #3

Note that with tbodt's excellent ish app ( https://ish.app/ ), you can get a real emacs installation on the iPhone. I made a quick writeup on it ( https://dp12.github.io/posts/tippinglikeits1989 ).

you can get even more 'real' and run it natively if you compile it for yourself on a jailbroken device. I'm working on this for arm64 (newer devices) and someone accomplished it ~5 years ago: https://chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com/linux-on-iphone/emacs-oc...

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

dparen12 wrote: post #3

Note that with tbodt's excellent ish app ( https://ish.app/ ), you can get a real emacs installation on the iPhone. I made a quick writeup on it ( https://dp12.github.io/posts/tippinglikeits1989 ).

> It segfaults on executables of any real size

Is this just in iSH, or a bug in Radare in general?

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Post by TBurette » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

Around the same time I wrote a package for Emacs that would run a webserver within emacs so that you could interact with it remotely from a mobile browser: http://thomasburette.com/take-off/ . Since every action you can perform in emacs is just a piece of elisp code you can easily send any command to emacs. The input method on mobile however is another story.

Pretty useless in practice but it was interesting to delve into the emacs source from the elisp code down to the c text rendering part.

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Post by MaxLeiter » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #5

dparen12 wrote: post #3

Note that with tbodt's excellent ish app ( https://ish.app/ ), you can get a real emacs installation on the iPhone. I made a quick writeup on it ( https://dp12.github.io/posts/tippinglikeits1989 ).

> It segfaults on executables of any real size Is this just in iSH, or a bug in Radare in general?

Probably an OOM (very limited shared memory available)

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Post by melling » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 5:38 PM UTC

Wonder if the chorded key input problem could eventually be solved with Google Soli gestures like those on the new Pixel phones:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/15/20908083/google-pixel-4-...

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Post by lbj » Thu, Dec 26, 2019, 7:14 PM UTC

I love emacs more than most, but Jesus Christ