From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: General Schvantzkoph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs on Android, someone please give this developer some help Date: 9 Aug 2012 22:15:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <874noc5evq.fsf@hfph.mwn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344550815 23306 80.91.229.3 (9 Aug 2012 22:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 22:20:15 +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 Aug 10 00:20:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Szb5R-0003q2-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:20:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38006 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Szb5Q-0002Lj-3l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:20:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Trace: individual.net /e9xgGtWxNyhUnp4wMq2ZgQxN543h1bUR3nXSPttgB0u77vlC9XRO3Pjwuuum4eVdW Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wbm8/rsGwbJ6oxRd/9qofLsQFrQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu comp.emacs.xemacs:82612 gnu.emacs.help:193906 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:86274 Archived-At: On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:17:13 +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > General Schvantzkoph 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.