From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: OT: native emacs on android Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:45:19 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <9s8vpykq1c.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: <87ipp2jdks.wl%lists@groll.co.za> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1315561422 26155 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2011 09:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 09:43:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 09 11:43:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcY-0000I6-DS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:43:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcY-0002hH-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:43:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcQ-0002gs-SX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcP-0000i7-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:43987) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcP-0000hy-1c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:43:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1xcG-000082-Uf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:43:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MNhctwrOczKjFmZvy/ACzOa0ZlI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82196 Archived-At: Jonathan Groll writes: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:41:52 +0200, dejfson wrote: >> Dear All, >> i'm thinking to buy a tablet-like device. One of the candidates would be >> either eee transformer with keyboard, or samsung galaxy tab 10.1. I could see >> a big >> potential in eee because of its keyboard. However in order to fully use the >> keyboard to be 'productive' a native emacs would be required (so I can write >> latex files etc...). >> >> My question is then, does somebody already provide emacs natively for android? >> So far I've seen only recipies of type 'put there debian and install emacs >> using apt-get'. >> of course this is of no way as i'd like to stick with original android. >> >> any experience? > > Since this is a tablet, one can assume you've got another machine? And > if so, then why not simply run Emacs on that other machine and > interact with it from the tablet using X/VNC etc. Not ideal if you're > away. > > I quite happily use Emacs on the commandline via connectbot (ssh) with > Emacs running on a machine at home. Biggest problem is lack of > dedicated CTRL and META keys and that Swype doesn't interact well with > emacs commands. > > Also, whilst it is necessary to root the device to install Linux (and > hence Emacs) inside a chroot, it is not necessary to replace the > original android from my understanding. I thought Android was Linux? Or is it to do with the apps needing to run in some android specific vm/sandbox that needs to be overcome?