Re: Emacs on Android, someone please give this developer some help

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Much though I'd like to be able to run Emacs on my Android phone, I'm 
having difficulty imagining how input could possibly work.  Emacs is 
heavily dependent on "chord" keystrokes. It's hard enough to type 
anything at all on the standard Android virtual keyboard, and that 
doesn't have ALT, CTRL, or SHIFT modifier keys.  Would an Android Emacs 
include its own virtual keyboard?  And even if it did, how do you type a 
chord on a touchscreen with keys that small?

    Mark


On 8/9/2012 10:17 AM, Andreas Goesele wrote:
> General Schvantzkoph<schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>  writes:
>
>> For some reason there has been no Emacs on Android which is a glaring
>> deficiency in the platform, even the Palm Pre had an Emacs port. Finally
>> someone in Poland has started a project but it looks like he's not very
>> experienced. I tried it on my Nexus 7 and it seg faults when you try and
>> start it. He's just trying to do an Emacs in a terminal emulator which is
>> fine, Emacs was written for terminals in the first place (I've been using
>> it since ITS Emacs came out on the Dec System 20 at the end of the 1970s).
>>
>> If there are any Emacs developers reading this please give this guy some
>> help if you can. I'm sure I'm not the only Emacs user who is desperate for
>> an Emacs on Android.
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs
>>
>> https://github.com/zielmicha/emacs-android
> Emacs on Android would indeed be great, especially if it included the
> diary and calendar!
>
> But gnu.emacs.help seems to be a much more active group where this call
> also would be relevant - so I allow myself to cross-post, hoping to give
> your call a bigger audience.
>
> Andreas
>

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