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

[General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@yahoo.com>]

On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:17:13 +0200, 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

BTW it works a little better than my initial post indicated. It's 
sensitive to font size, it works for small fonts and seg faults on larger 
fonts (> 10 on the Nexus 7, >6 on the Galaxy Nexus). It's a good start.