Re: Android port of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings]

> You can easily verify this by installing any CJK input method and trying 
> to enable it inside a Termux or X11 window.  Don't assume that everyone 
> resides in an English speaking country, or one where alphabetical 
> writing systems are commonplace.

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".

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

> > and Termux:X11 does of course support touch screen devices (see 
> > https://github.com/termux/termux-x11).
>
> Only in the form of mouse pointer emulation, which is unusable.

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

> There are many other differences: the ability to open files provided by 
> the Android file-system API (rather than the Unix VFS that is 
> intentionally limited by Android), and the ability to run user-installed 
> executables outside of the Termux (or Emacs) home directory, just to 
> name a few.

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"?

> > 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.
>
> It is, because yanking text from the clipboard is an operation users 
> perform very often.  And the fact that it breaks, and Emacs cannot even 
> display an error message, because the Termux port maintainers did not 
> import the Gnulib modules necessary for Emacs to do so, points to the 
> complete inadequacy of their port.

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