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





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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>