Re: Android port of Emacs

[Po Lu]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

> A request to add a Chinese input method for Termux:X11 can be found at
> https://github.com/termux/termux-x11/issues/147, it was closed three
> months ago, after the person who filed the request said, after testing
> the feature, that "it works perfectly".

The last follow-up in that thread is an image displaying a Chinese
input method, with the composition functionality disabled, captioned ``a
sad story''.

Instead of making these statements, why not try yourself, as I have?
With Trime or Fcitx?

> BTW, as you know Emacs has no less than 25 built-in input methods for
> Chinese, which only require a keyboard with alphanumeric characters.

These input methods are inferior to other free input methods available
on X and Android.  I don't expect you to understand, seeing as you don't
write Chinese text.

> What do you mean?  That page indicates that you can tap and swipe
> (with which you can scroll vertically or horizontally).

Swiping with two fingers is not convenient and conflicts with dragging
to select text.  And, if I wanted editor modes, I wouldn't be using
Emacs.

> What does that mean in practice?  Two hours ago someone said in this
> thread "I love using emacs through termux", so how can you claim that
> it is "unusable", "completely inadequate" and "bad"?

It means that you are able to directly open files from an Android FTP
client in Emacs.

> That points to a possible improvement of Termux, not to a "complete
> inadequacy of their port".

It doesn't matter.  Right now, it is far from a substitute for the
Android port.

>From the tone of your writing (not only here, also from your other
interactions, over the past several months), I'm beginning to suspect
that you have personal problems with me, and are deliberately trying to
mislead those who read this thread with irrelevant information.

So unless you actually use Android, the various Emacsen that are capable
of running there, and a good understanding of the code within the
feature/android branch, please stay out of this thread.  This is the
last follow-up I will post in response to you.