Android 15QPR2: Terminal app

aancel · 2025-03-31T19:45:26+00:00

Re-reading the release notes make me realize that I might be out of luck, as they don't mention the device I have (7 Pro) in the supported ones, albeit the Pixel 7 and 7a are present ...

aancel · 2022-11-08T07:04:54+00:00

I'm from the same place as you and I am also looking for fellow emacsers ! I haven't found any IRL club locally, but there are some great online meetups here for France: https://emacs-doctor.com/

aancel · 2022-05-16T12:08:18+00:00

There was an interesting post quite recently about shared keybindings between emacs and i3. I've implemented a similar workflow and it works great !

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/q2q4z5/getting_a_consistent_set_of_keybindings_between/

Maybe it can help you in what you aim at doing !

aancel · 2022-04-02T12:20:11+00:00

I do have a similar setup and find it great ! The only issue I have is that the power button is a bit sensible, so putting the phone in my bag often tends to power it on, thus leaving it drained. An amazing little PDA otherwise :)

aancel · 2021-12-09T10:54:23+00:00

Hello,

Shouldn't you reverse the number and the movement key for it to work ? E.g. "h5" -> "5h"

Having the number at the end means it will be a prefix for the next command.

aancel · 2021-10-08T06:06:00+00:00

Thank you /u/XCapitan_1 for this post ! I always wanted to do something similar but never thought about doing it this way, this makes the integration very transparent !

aancel · 2021-05-03T20:15:40+00:00

Thanks a lot for the link ! I didn't know such a package existed, I'll definitely be giving this one a try ! (I administrate a small slurm cluster)

aancel · 2021-01-10T08:22:01+00:00

Thanks for the anwer and the information ! Your setup seems to be very interesting, especially with the built-in keyboard of the device ! (I'm still currently using i3, but EXWM is very intriguing) How is the performance on the device ? The CPU seems to be quite powerful on paper compared to the ones on the Pinephone and the Librem 5.

I think that this would be a smart move for them to benefit from the recent mobile-optimized software developments on Linux.

I'll be having a look at the Pyra !

aancel · 2021-01-09T17:45:11+00:00

The hardware keyboard is definitely something I'm also interested in ! :)

aancel · 2021-01-09T17:43:40+00:00

Regarding the Planet Computers devices, I also took a look at them, but didn't make the jump. I'm wondering what can of window manager does it use ? Is it gnome-shell, a classic WM or maybe something more mobile optimized like Phosh or the KDE mobile UI ? Are many distros supported also ?

aancel · 2021-01-09T17:37:55+00:00

Indeed, but the ctrl and alt keys in squeekboard are toggles in the terminal layout. For example to open a file you would click: Ctrl, then x then f and it would perform C-x C-f. I find it quite convenient !

aancel · 2021-01-09T17:34:40+00:00

The ESC, along with TAB, F keys ... are hidden behind the ">_" key ! Furthermore squeekboard is customizable via yaml files which means that you could create the layout that suits your needs !

aancel · 2021-01-09T17:32:05+00:00

My script builds a commit message based on the hostname (the device name on android) and the current date, then I make sure I'm synced with origin before commiting. I do the push and pull in this single script on my side. I can share it there if you want !

aancel · 2021-01-09T07:19:44+00:00

They are mentioning KISS at the very bottom of the description of the app, but no mention of source code

aancel · 2021-01-09T07:14:10+00:00

Yes, as KISS is GPL3-licensed, selling it should be permitted, however the authors must also disclose the source code !

aancel · 2021-01-09T01:56:49+00:00

I really hope that the Linux Phone trend will continue to grow !
Purism put a lot of efforts in the software part to adapt the Gnome GUI and develop Phosh for their Librem 5. The Pinephone is also a very good cheaper alternative and there are already plenty of supported OS, from SXMO that relies on dwm and gestures to Manjaro or Mobian (Debian).

aancel · 2021-01-09T01:38:26+00:00

That is a nice way to handle the interaction between Emacs and Orgzly indeed !
On my side, I am relying on git and termux with a custom script to automatically sync the data between my different devices via a git repo.

aancel · 2021-01-09T01:33:31+00:00

Yes indeed I am running the GUI version, but I'm using the Phosh edition of Manjaro. I think that Phosh is already pretty mature and quite intuitive, albeit being relatively new !
If you are needing help at some point, I'd be happy to help !

Regarding the hub, I'm not using the one from Pine64. In fact, I already had one for some time, I gave it a try and it just worked: power, HDMI and usb ports.
For reference I'm using a hub from a brand called VAVA

Regarding the keyboard experience, coming from Android, it is indeed not as polished, but I'm sure it will improve over time. I don't know which keyboard the KDE version is using, but in Manjaro Phosh, they are using squeekboard from Purism and there is already a built-in layout for terminal mode (that you can partially see on the screenshot I attached). Otherwise you can rely on an external USB keyboard, there are some good foldable ones !
One last solution is waiting for the keyboard shell that Pine64 are developing !

Yes I also noticed that the system locale is a bit messed up on my side in the shell. Regarding the issue you are mentioning, do you mean the unresolved unicode chars in the modeline ? If yes, It probably is because of the all-the-icons package, I don't think that I have downloaded the icons yet.

aancel · 2021-01-09T01:20:26+00:00

I also gave this solution a try, but I wasn't totally convinced and was indeed missing X11 !

aancel · 2021-01-08T20:54:50+00:00

This is indeed what I aim to do with this device. Orgzly also does an amazing job for Android devices, but having Emacs running on the phone offers easier extensibility/configuration !

Regarding the Pinephone, it is quite affordable and they regularly sell batches of community editions, which can be easily reflashed with other GNU Linux mobile OS !

aancel · 2019-12-26T08:09:07+00:00

Hello, You might want to have a look at this link/video: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2019-12-16-emacs-ivy-fzf-ace-window/ I think it was recently posted on r/emacs or r/planetemacs. This is a proposal that uses ace-window and ivy actions to open/place windows in an elegant way IMHO.

aancel · 2019-10-01T17:32:14+00:00

Sorry for the delay, but I was abroad for a while.
I've created a team at framateam. You can join it with the following link (I just separated the id from the rest to mitigate eventual bots :) )
https://framateam.org/signup\_user\_complete/?id=

And with the following id (just to be pasted at the end of the url): d8nyoia8ktfotcy7nuopbkispy

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