Re: Full org-mode on unrooted Android

[Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com>]

Scot,

I haven't notice much impact on the battery life but, given all the
services/demons typical ubuntu system launches, there must be some
consequences for the battery for sure. I do leave it running in
background (by not exiting terminal).

I also noticed some keybindings that don't work (M-<arrows> and M-RET
in particular) but their ESC- counterparts work fine. It looks like
that might be a problem of the Android Terminal.

Regards,
Alex

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alex,
>
> That also sounds like a good way to carry Emacs/org with your, if the
> battery life hit isn't too big, (is it?) and if it's possible to keep the
> system running in the background (do you do ths?)
>
> Emacs for Android didn't work for me at all, and seems not to be currently
> maintained.
>
> After some more experiments I see that although Zhaolin works pretty well
> with an external keyboard, the terminal emulator seems to have more trouble
> with the soft keyboard popping up and down.  I do have press ESC then Enter
> to get a new org heading.  ALT+Enter doesn't seem to work.
>
> Scot
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Alexander Vorobiev
> <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There is also emacs for Android
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emacs but
>> after trying it and playing with some other ports of unix
>> applications, I decided to bit the bullet and install full Ubuntu on
>> my Galaxy Note 8 using
>>
>> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid.
>> The tablet/phone needs to be rooted though (the installer needs to be
>> able to create and mount loopback device for the Linux disk image) but
>> for the popular devices it is not difficult at all (but You will
>> probably lose your warranty though).
>>
>> Now I have my regular emacs setup with org-mode, ess, AucTeX, tramp,
>> etc, and all the tools I am used to - ssh, R, gcc, etc. I use it in
>> console mode using Android terminal, regular Ubuntu GUI is also
>> available through VNC client. There is no dual-boot or virtualization
>> involved, all it does is chroot in the terminal session, Android's
>> Linux kernel is standard enough to make Ubuntu happy.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:
>> > On 08/10/13 11:36, Scot Becker wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Just a quick note to say that it's possible to get a full
>> >> Emacs+org-mode
>> >> on (unrooted) Android using an app called 'zshaolin'.  You can either
>> >> download the app from the Google Play store for approx $3 or download
>> >> the toolchain and source from their website and compile it yourself
>> >> (which I haven't tried).
>> >>
>> >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dyne.zshaolin&hl=en
>> >>
>> >> http://www.dyne.org/software/zshaolin/
>> >> (for source, follow links to their FTP site, about 2/3 down the page)
>> >>
>> >> Emacs is version 24.1.50.
>> >>
>> >> The following needs to be added to the .zshrc for org-mode to work:
>> >>
>> >> export TMPDIR=${HOME}/tmp
>> >>
>> > Thanks for sharing. I have been using emacs via ssh on my Nexus 7.
>> > However,
>> > obviously this only works if I can get an Internet connection. So far
>> > this
>> > setup looks as though it will meet all my simple mobile needs, which are
>> > just to edit my org files in native Emacs.
>> >
>> > I see that git is also built in. I haven't tested it yet, but if it
>> > works I
>> > can just pull and push my org files from my repos, rather than copying
>> > them
>> > to the Nexus manually.
>> >
>> > Ian.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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