Man, you guys are making me want and android phone.I sat in a cafe with a
friend who grep'd his mail server from his g1 and was impressed.

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Michael Zeller <
michael.dylan.zeller@gmail.com> wrote:

> "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:
>
> >
> > Connecting to my PC and starting emacsclient -t via a bash-alias (`ec')
> > takes about 5 seconds from everywhere. I think running (and working
> > with) a native Emacs on the phone itself (which isn't available anyway)
> > could never be much faster. Gnus and Org-mode are ready to go. And no
> > need to synchronize.
>
> As an aside, you could actually run emacs natively on the g1. I've
> followed the instructions from Jay Freeman (http://www.saurik.com/id/10,
> seems to be down though, try using the Google cache) for installing
> Debian on the g1 (on your SD card -- I recommend getting an 8GB
> card). After you've installed Debian you run openssh and connect to
> localhost using ConnectBot.
>
> Even better, you could install xorg and run emacs using AndroidVNC in X,
> although I've found this to be much slower. Although, "theoretically"
> you could use a browser such as Conkeror in X to follow http links,
> although this is extremely slow for me. You're better off with w3m-el,
> until newer hardware comes out. Also note that the keyboard under
> AndroidVNC is not as nice as ConnectBot's layout.
>
> >
> > This is the solution I always dreamed of and more than once asked about
> > in this list. I can very much recommend Android (even if its
> > relationship to Google can be annoying).
>
> I also recommend Android.
>
> >
> > For those who want to give it a try: In ConnectBot CTRL is pressing the
> > mouse ball once, META (ESC) is pressing it twice. TAB is twice pressing
> > the mouse ball and hitting SPC. To expand a tree in an org file you have
> > to set org-cycle to a key. Of course, you should have an internet
> > flatrate if you want to write your PhD thesis that way ;-).
>
> With my solution, you don't need to drop all of that money on an
> internet plan, but you would need to sync your org files. For using the
> g1 without a plan, just buy a prepaid SIM card and connect using adb
> shell when registering the phone and execute:
>
> am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -n com.android.settings/.Settings
>
> to bring up the Wifi settings and register without buying a dataplan. I
> spend about $10 a month prepaid and use Skype for everything else.
>
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Sven
>
> Thanks,
> ~Michael Zeller
>
>
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