Re: Android port of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > FWIW, I tried to use [Emacs on Android via Termux:X11] but found it 
> > > unbearable.  I can't remember all the annoyances, but there were many, 
> > > and AFAIK there is no way for *us* to fix them. [...] I have currently 
> > > no incentive to contribute bug reports to that project.
> >
> > I was not suggesting that you should report bugs to Termux:X11, I was 
> > asking for something more detailed than "unbearable", which contradicts 
> > what others said in this thread.
>
> [No reply.]

Do you really have nothing more concrete than "unbearable"?

Also, is it not possible that between the moment you tried to use 
Termux:X11 (which started only four years ago and is under active 
development) and now, it has improved, perhaps significantly so?

> > Also, I hope you realize that with the feature/android port you need to 
> > compile all external programs you need from their sources.
>
> Not if/when it's distributed/installed as part of Termux :-)

What do you mean?  We're discussing the feature/android branch, not some 
hypothetical variant of it.  For that branch, you need to compile all 
external programs you need from their sources, see e.g. 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2023-07/msg00152.html.

What I guess you mean, and what would indeed be possible in theory, is to 
build that branch as an app that shares the same user id as the Termux 
app... but that in turn means that it needs to be signed with the same 
certificate as the Termux app.  So you'd have to convince the Termux 
developers to do that (why would they put that on their shoulders?), or 
alternatively to convince the F-Droid maintainers to do that.  In both 
cases that Emacs would depend on the goodwill of another project to remain 
available.