Actually, I've been using the debian packages (emacs21-{nox,common,bin-common}_21.4a-3_arm.deb) without any trouble. I even relocated it to /usr/local without having to rebuild the packages. Of course, I wouldn't even think of trying to use emacs with the on-screen keyboard.

One annoying thing, even outside of emacs, is that the maemo xterm uses control-C/V/Q as commands. If anyone knows of an easy way to remedy this, then I'd be most interested. It's really quite silly; if one doesn't have a keyboard, then control keys don't exist and do not function as a short cut. If one does have a keyboard, one probably wants to be able to use the control keys within a terminal window as data (e.g. typing control-C to interrupt a running program, and not to paste the contents of the clipboard).

Lon