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If you want to try and build a version of emacs for the iPad that would be a fun exercise. If you bought an iPad with intention of downloading and installing a
by thought_alarm 16y ago
If you want to try and build a version of emacs for the iPad that would be a fun exercise. If you bought an iPad with intention of downloading and installing a version of emacs you're doing it wrong, regardless of how Apple chooses to manage its app store.
Anyway, Apple ships emacs with OS X, and I think they're one of the last *nix venders who still installs emacs by default.
How ironic?
- hyperbovine 16y agoIt always surprised me that Apple still ships Emacs. It strikes me as just the sort of thing--bulky, unintuitive, feature-laden, slow--that Steve Jobs would have a personal vendetta against.
- thought_alarm 16y agoWell, the NeXT engineers were firmly in the emacs camp, and that heritage is still present in the Cocoa text system. I don't know if the iPad text system also supports emacs shortcuts, but if it did I'd rush out and buy a Bluetooth keyboard just as a token of solidarity.
- mattj 16y agoIf you use a bluetooth keyboard, it does some basic stuff (c-f, c-b etc)
- thought_alarm 16y agoHa! That's cool. And I suppose the iPhone will also work with Bluetooth keyboards when OS 4 is released. I can't wait to tell my mom that her cellphone supports emacs keyboard shortcuts.
- jsz0 16y agoOut of sight, out of mind. At least they include nano in the base system.
- jrockway 16y agoLet me guess, you still call it "eight megs and constantly swapping". 1980 was a fun year...
- rbanffy 16y agoYou have a weird idea if fun, sir ;-)
- hyperbovine 16y agoI can only assume it was, seeing as i was conceived around then. A 3-second lag to start a program you use thousands of times a year adds up.
- jrockway 16y agoYou reboot your computer thousands of times a year? You might want to have that checked out.
- hyperbovine 16y agoZing!