Re: Has anyone tried compiling vile in termux?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> chris wrote:
>  > I run termux on my phone so I can access my home Linux system's
>  > command line to read E-Mail, Usenet etc.  My home system runs as an
>  > always on server and gets mail delivered to a traditional mail spool
>  > by Postfix and also runs 'leafnode' a small NNTP server.  Thus I am
>  > totally independent of gmail or anything like that.
>  > 
>  > I normally use my laptop to ssh to my home system to read E-Mail and
>  > Usenet, Termux on Android just gives me a smaller, lighter way to do
>  > the same if I don't have my laptop with me.
> 
> How is that experience different than, say, using an ssh client (I use
> JuiceSSH) to connect to your home system?  (And I connect using mosh,
> so the connection tends to stay up for days, if not weeks.)
> 
It's just a much more complete 'Linux like' system to run from, I can
run the same .profile, .bashrc etc. so it just feels very familiar.
It even runs syncthng so I can synchronise files between my home
system, the laptop and my Android phone.  I have my address
database synchronised across the systems and I can find addresses from
the command line on the 'phone.  Also I have a little collection of
encrypted files which are synchronised so I can access them locally.


> (I think I was expecting you to describe using termux to navigate
> the android filesystem, so you could use vile to edit config files and
> ImageMagick to manipulate your photos.)
> 
You can do very little like this, the phone isn't rooted and so Termux
is in a pretty tight sandbox like other Android apps.

-- 
Chris Green