Re: Android port of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Indeed.  There is another data point that should, I believe, be 
> > mentioned: users who want to run Emacs on an Android device can already 
> > do so, with both its TUI and GUI, without any changes whatsoever on the 
> > Emacs side. See for instance this five years old Reddit post: 
> > https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9m76ak/termux_package_emacsx/. 
> > That post mentions the "XServer XSDL" X server; a year later the Termux 
> > folks started the development of their own X server implementation for 
> > Android, Termux:X11.
>
> That's adequate to the same extent that Cygwin/X is adequate for running 
> Emacs.  Or actually much less adequate, seeing as that X server doesn't 
> support input methods, clipboard data other than text, or touch screen 
> devices.  Try to scroll a window without a keyboard or mouse wheel.

Sorry, but that's wrong, or at the very least exaggerated, AFAICS. 
Termux does support input methods (see e.g. 
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard), and Termux:X11 does of 
course support touch screen devices (see 
https://github.com/termux/termux-x11).  Please be factual, and add 
pointers to some external places.

I did not check your claim about "clipboard data other than text", I don't 
even know what that means.  I just tried to copy-paste a cat image from a 
browser (I tried both Firefox and Chrome) to Emacs on GNU/Linux, it did 
not work.  And even assuming that minor feature would work on GNU/Linux 
and not on Android, it would make life of Android users slightly less 
convenient, which does not seem a problem in itself.

> Also, that build is more or less broken:
>
> https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/10083

A single bug report indicating that "sometimes when copy pasting text in 
emacs-x it freezes with clock icon." is not synonymous to "more or less 
broken" in my book.