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diff --git a/content/posts/emacs-on-android-setup/index.org b/content/posts/emacs-on-android-setup/index.org index edb7e23..04f673c 100644 --- a/content/posts/emacs-on-android-setup/index.org +++ b/content/posts/emacs-on-android-setup/index.org @@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ Not too long ago I purchased a Samsung Galaxy Tab A. I bought it mostly for browsing the internet and reading PDFs, but I've been using it a lot more for working in Emacs recently. -With the help of Termux, I've gotten more or less a fully operational -development and writing environment which has both a small size, and -long battery life. With the use of a bluetooth keyboard, I have -everything required to work, and comfortably at that. +With the help of [[https://termux.com/][Termux]], I've gotten more or less a fully functional +development and writing environment which has both a small physical +size, and long battery life. With the use of a bluetooth keyboard, I +have everything required to work, and comfortably at that. I use the HHKB Professional Hybrid, which I highly recommend for the -task, as it's nearly impossible to rebind keys on Android, and I need -the control key to be in the place of caps lock to be effective at -using Emacs. +task. It's nearly impossible to properly rebind keys on Android, and I +need the control key to be in the place of caps lock to be effective +at using Emacs. In addition, I have a stand case for my tablet, so it is able to sit up in landscape mode by itself. @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ on my computer, since the fullscreen nature of Termux tends to stop me from getting distracted by other things I'm working on in the background. -#+ATTR_HTML: :title The Emacs welcome screen -#+ATTR_HTML: :alt Emacs running on termux, showing the emacs welcome screen +#+ATTR_HTML: :title Emacs in Termux +#+ATTR_HTML: :alt Emacs running on termux, showing the Emacs welcome screen [[file:termux emacs screenshot.jpg]] The first thing I had to do was install Emacs and git, which are as @@ -51,11 +51,11 @@ easy as running a single command. pkg install emacs git #+END_SRC -Since I host my Emacs on [[https://github.com/dantecatalfamo/emacs.d][GitHub]], getting things started here is -effortless. All I had to do was clone it onto my system, and open -Emacs, it even sets itself up courtesy of =use-package=, which -installs all the required packages and dependencies without requiring -my intervention. +Since I host my Emacs configuration on [[https://github.com/dantecatalfamo/emacs.d][GitHub]], getting things started +here is effortless. All I had to do was clone it onto my system, and +open Emacs. It completely sets itself up courtesy of =use-package=, +which installs all the required packages and dependencies without +requiring my intervention. Because I host my blog's contents in a git repository as well, I'm also able to clone that and work on it using the =hugo= package. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ gdb-many-windows t)=. [[file:termux emacs gdb screenshot.jpg]] -I'm also able to work on my Org documents, which I store in a personal +I'm also able to work on my org documents, which I store in a personal Nextcloud instance, thanks to =rclone=. I have two small scripts which I've written so I'm able to sync the files before I start editing them, and after I'm done. @@ -142,3 +142,18 @@ installed as a dependency by default, =ecl= requires the They also provide an up to date version of [[https://raku.org/][Raku]], a language which I really enjoy toying around with, along with [[https://julialang.org/][Julia]], [[https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/][octave]], and [[https://www.r-project.org/][R]], among other things. + +One shortcoming of running my large Emacs configuration on such a low +power device is that it can take a couple of seconds to start the +first time. Fortunately =emacsclient= works perfectly in Termux, so +I'm able to simply launch the Emacs daemon in the background when I +fist launch it. I have an alias in my =.bashrc= to do this +automatically. + +#+BEGIN_SRC shell +alias em="emacsclient -c -a ''" +#+END_SRC + +I just call =em= instead of =emacs= when I want to edit a document. It +will either open a new frame connected to an already running Emacs +daemon, or launch the daemon, and then connect once it's started. |