Re: Android port of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings]

> > 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".
>
> The last follow-up in that thread is an image displaying a Chinese input 
> method, with the composition functionality disabled, captioned ``a sad 
> story''.

No, as anyone can see, the last follow-up in that thread is a reply from 
one of the Termux developers telling that user to use another touch 
keyboard to fix that problem.  Someone requests a Chinese input method in 
Termux, the Termux developers implement it, the person who made the 
request tests it and tells that "it works perfectly", and you still claim 
it doesn't work, using the factoid that someone else who apparently did 
not configure their device correctly posted a comment in that bug thread? 
And I'm the one who "deliberately tries to mislead those who read this 
thread with irrelevant information"?

> > What do you mean?  That page indicates that you can tap and swipe (with 
> > which you can scroll vertically or horizontally).
>
> Swiping with two fingers is not convenient and conflicts with dragging 
> to select text.

So your initial claim that Termux does not support touch screen devices 
and that you cannot scroll a window is false, it's only that scrolling 
with two fingers it not as convenient as scrolling with one finger?  And 
I'm the one who "deliberately tries to mislead those who read this thread 
with irrelevant information"?

> From the tone of your writing (not only here, also from your other 
> interactions, over the past several months), I'm beginning to suspect 
> that you have personal problems with me, and are deliberately trying to 
> mislead those who read this thread with irrelevant information.

That sentence very much looks like a rhetorical trick to discredit 
everything I said and could say.  I won't fall into that trap.

> So unless you actually use Android, the various Emacsen that are capable 
> of running there, and a good understanding of the code within the 
> feature/android branch, please stay out of this thread.

If the only people who are welcome in this thread are those you describe, 
it would be a monologue between you and yourself.  This thread was started 
by Eli, who wanted a "serious discussion" about the feature/android branch 
(sadly, it quickly derailed into a discussion about Emacs contributions in 
general).

I only mentioned a fact that should I believe be taken into consideration, 
which wasn't included in Eli's post, namely that Emacs can be (and is 
actually) used on Android devices without any of these changes.  You tried 
to contradict that fact by telling that Emacs running under Termux / 
Termux:X11 is "unusable", "completely inadequate" and "broken".

So far however, the few features that you said work better with the 
feature/android branch compared to a stock Emacs running under Termux / 
Termux:X11 (the ability to use M-x yank-media in message-mode, scrolling 
windows with one finger instead of two fingers, a more convenient CJK 
input method (?)) do not seem to justify, at least to me, your judgement 
that Emacs running under Termux / Termux:X11 is "unusable" and "far from a 
substitute for the Android port".