Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

Hello everybody,

Some time ago I announced having ported emacs for maemo.

I created an account on garage to host the file from there, alas, it seems there is a 10 Mb upload limit. Emacs is a 30 Mb package!!

I wrote feedback about the problem, but in the meantime I make the download available from my own server.

Here is the link:

http://troubleshooter.is-a-geek.com/emacs_22.1-1_armel.deb

It should be installable from the application manager.

If that doesn't work for you, try dpkg -i path/to/file
For pre-0S2008, you'll need xterm installed on your device.

Thank you for posting feedback/problems on this thread.

Ulysses

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

I'm sure you saw this one:

http://xkcd.com/378/

cheers

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

LOL

And I was going to come here and post something about the tablets only having 256 MB flash, which comes xxx MB full from reflashing, so you'd need an SD card to run it.
But reality beat me to it -- the package is 3 times the garage limit! :D

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

emacs - “a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

Very true.

The reason I haven't bothered flashing my Nokia N800 to the new IT OS2008 is because my OS is... emacs.

It's my editor, my mailer, my pdf formater (tex), my dictionary (dict), my spell-checker (aspell, which I also cross-compiled), and my lisp machine.

Of course I use an external keyboard.

In short, to me the Nokia N800 is just a debian linux with all I need in an Xterm.

Good luck everybody.

Daniel

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

lol ...


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Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

Forgot to mention:

After installing the package, open a terminal and type: emacs -nw

That's it. Enjoy.

Ulysses

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

Hi everybody,

A user reported the following error when trying to run emacs:

"libXaw.so.7 not found".

I'd like to know who else has this problem. Thanks for your feedback.

Furthermore, at this early stage of deployment, I decided to provide another package for testing purposes. I hope user feedback will help me decide which is going to be the better one.

In short, for now you can try GNU emacs cross-compiled with X support, and without. Now, I know I previously wrote in the description of the existing package that is was emacs with no X, that was misleading because what I meant whas that it is not Xemacs (a fork of emacs), but GNU emacs (which has X support as well). The size of both packages are roughly the same despite what you might think.

The link of GNU emacs with X support (as previously posted) is:
http://troubleshooter.is-a-geek.com/....1-1_armel.deb

The link of GNU emacs without X support (new) is:
http://troubleshooter.is-a-geek.com/....1-1_armel.deb


Thanks in advance,

Ulysses

PS: Feedback needed.

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

I also got the "libXaw.so.7 not found" error.

So I tried the no X package and it runs but seems to need a terminfo database which is not installed on the N800. Any idea where to get terminfo from?

Thanks

Julian

Re: Announcing port of emacs for maemo
 

Please install ncurses-base.

Would you be kind enough to report if this fixes the problem, thanks.

I'll add ncurses-base as a dependency in the package definition.