GNU Emacs ported to Android

Just downloaded it. Here are a few things to note:<p>- 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.<p>- The app consists apparently of a terminal emulator and a Bourne shell (clone?). emacs will reside inside this emulator and the shell.<p>- 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).<p>- 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.<p>- The app greatly benefits from Hacker's Keyboard or any similar advanced keyboard.

Err....Emacs is probably a better OS than Android. :)

So? A Vim port's been out for a few months.<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.app.vimtouch&#38;feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm5ldC5tb21vZGFsby5hcHAudmltdG91Y2giXQ." rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.a...</a>.<p>/dons my flame-retardant jacket

Anyone trying to use this on a device with its own keyboard? eg. <a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/best-keyboard-qwerty-android-phones-2012-55315/" rel="nofollow">http://www.androidauthority.com/best-keyboard-qwerty-android...</a><p>Be interested to hear how usable you can make it. Whether you can remap keys or buttons to all the major modifiers.<p>Emacs 23 on the Nokia N900 is the reason I recently bought that phone even though Nokia is so uncool now and everything (works excellently, BTW).

It segfaulted here (11). Since the shell was available, ls -l revealed that only directories had +x on them, and none of the scripts. Not sure whether that makes any sense (or simply was not compiled for the right arm architecture).<p>It does not work from both Nexus 7 Tablet, and Google Nexus phone (latest)

So how do you enter the control sequences?

Every couple of weeks since I started using Android, I've checked the Play store to see if Emacs was there. So even though I don't know what I'll do with it yet, I'm excited to download the GNU Emacs app.<p>Anybody have any ideas for what to do with Emacs on a phone?

Good 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?

Now the editor's kitchen sink also includes phone calls!

I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chords I do unless I was able to observe my hands performing them.

Doesn't this have to be open-sourced? Emacs is GPL'd. I might want to help out with the development.

We are on the way to start good development on an Android tablet! FTW

seg11 on nexus 7 :(

dupe: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368237" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368237</a>