On Wed, Aug 19, 2026, at 04:14, Greg Troxel wrote: > As for emacs, I have run emacs in termux and it works just fine. The > only problem is that you are typing in a terminal. If you have a > bluetooth or other external keyboard, and a magnifying glass this can be > fine.
I do the same, and can reproduce a good 95% of my heavily emacs reliant normal workflow with termux. I do however agree that except for very casual use an external keyboard is a must. But even though I have terrible eyesight, I don't need a magnifying glass as pinching to zoom in works just fine. And of course on a tablet rather than a phone there are no real issues. When I travel, in fact, I don't take a laptop, just a tablet and a folding Bluetooth keyboard. > If you don't have a real keyboard, then I strongly recommend "Unexpected > Keyboard" which lets you type the full ASCII character set and many > beyond-ASCII characters (e.g. EUish latin-1 letters), control, meta. Thanks for this tip; I was not aware of Unexpected Keyboard.
