#Emacs is now available in #fdroid

And, surprisingly, it just …works?

You can scroll buffers by touch scrolling and tapping a text buffer opens the keyboard.

The menu bar is finally useful because it pops out as a native menu.

This is trippy, this could almost be usable…

I’ll have to get my config into this; I don’t doubt it’d just work.

@emacs

  • madnificent@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    Check out termux so you can combine the native install with tools such as Git to have a fuller installation. org-roam seems to work. No native compilation but performance is still ok. Also turn on touch-screen-display-keyboard and touch-screen-precision-scroll.

  • sleep_walker@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    29 days ago

    My problem with F-Droid’s Emacs is not the Emacs but me relying on tons of external programs. So Termux variant works for me better because it’s not just Emacs, but whole distro (with rg, git, python, language servers etc.