I haven’t tried a local .Emacs file yet, but it should work.

http://babbagefiles.blogspot.de/2014/12/emacs-and-synchronised-org-mode-on.html

And if anyone does so and puts the files online somewhere, please share the link here.

I suggest (temporarily) installing it from the Play store, grabbing the various files, then repackaging them as a zip or tarball. It will be easiest to do on a rooted device, but since the Play package ships with a shell, it will probably be possible to copy the key files from that shell (since it will start as the user that owns the app).

The download link is broken again. Is there a mirror anywhere?

I’m using just a generic Logitech BT keyboard, and haven’t had to worry about key swapping.

Thanks in advance, and thanks for your article!

Terminal IDE does not support UTF-8.

Non-ASCII characters are not displayed.
(It is mentioned in the Playstore description.)

There is a feature request on the project page but the last comment was 1 year ago.
It seems Terminal IDE development is resting.

I think it’s a great idea to do a new native Android port of Emacs for use within Terminal IDE — I don’t have the time to do it, but I certainly have the time to test, and will happily update this blog post with a link if/when you have one ready.

In the meantime, http://emacs.zielm.com seems to be back up again. We should probably mirror it, in case the site goes offline permanently.

Anyway, I believe that compiling Emacs against the Android environment (to get the paths correct for an app, and correct library links) and running it from inside a nice terminal in Android is no big conceptual problem. So I might try to do this some time to get an Emacs working even in an unrooted Android.

As for a rooted Android, it has been long known that it is possible to install a GNU/Linux distro into a chroot.

But out of interest, I was also interested to get a running Emacs in an unrooted Android.

As a faster solution (without recompiling Emacs against the Android environment), I’ve used the GNURoot app (with GNURoot Wheezy) which allows to use a GNU/Linux distro like Debian in an unrooted Android. There I could start Emacs, as well as ssh to my computers, and hopefully I’ll be able to use TRAMP, too. (I haven’t yet tried this out.)

The GNURoot app does all this by means of a [“PTRACE container”](http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/9188/4319) implemented by [“proot”](http://proot.me/): interception of syscalls and “emulating” what should be done in the different Android and unprivileged environment. (Redirecting paths, faking the root user privileges, etc.)

[It was a while ago when I learned about such projects](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/proot_me/h3rDV8na9kc/4mSCyOsX28UJ).

It’s a pity that source code for GNURoot](https://github.com/corbinlc/gnuroot) seems not to be well documented, so it’s not easy to start hacking with it right away or at least learn how all the things have been compiled and put together from source.

Then installed Terminal IDE (went fine) then followed your instructions. This hangs at the launch of ~/emacs : clears screen (except for softkeyboard), maints a line of dashes in the all-but-las line of the (usable part of the) screen, displays “using loadpath (/sdcard/emacs/lisp) n the last line (the cursor is right after the closing paren) an hangs … indefinitely.

Trying to close terminal emulator does not succeds : even after wiping it from the task list, a second consultation of the task list shows it back again. Trying to shutdown all terminals does not succeed either. The only way I found to get rid of it is to reboot the phone.

Any suggestion ? Note : I’m totally ignorant of java and Android : my background is Unix, C, Lisp and R ; I might be a little bit out of my depth here…