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For those of us married to emacs: I would love to know if anyone has succeeded in using SSH on an iPadPro with a sensible mapping of the keyboard. Every SSH I

For those of us married to emacs: I would love to know if anyone has succeeded in using SSH on an iPadPro with a sensible mapping of the keyboard. Every SSH I tried had some intercept of control sequences, which was fatal as far as I was concerned. This was at least couple of years ago, so perhaps there's been progress. So far, the only usable iPadPro emacs is via uVNC to a graphical remote machine, which does seem to provide unhindered transmission of control/meta combination key events when using an external keyboard. Pointers/corrections/tips/advice welcome. Edit: Any reviews on ssh with Blink to a remote machine to run emacs?

frosty_sword 8y ago
I haven't tried this with a keyboard, but it's been working well for me sshing into my server and doing some small stuff with vim. https://github.com/tbodt/ish https://github.com/tbodt/ish
colordrops 8y ago
Why is everyone in this thread ignoring Android tablets? There are ports for most command line apps, including Emacs. Try Termux.
- a_e_k 8y ago
  I had the same thought. To give an example and add some context: just last week I thought of a possible bug and gap in the test coverage for a personal project. Within a Zsh prompt, I pulled the latest revision from Bitbucket using Mercurial, used Emacs (via the Hacker's Keyboard [1] soft keyboard) to edit the test suite and add a couple of lines, then used CMake to generate a makefile for GNU Make to build the project using Clang, and finally ran the test suite and confirmed the expected segfault. All of this was done locally (except for the pull, obviously) from within a Termux [2] session on a sub-$300 Android phone. Granted, the full test suite takes about 14x longer to run on my phone compared to my aging desktop and it's tedious to type very much, but as the old saying goes: "The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." [1] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard [2] https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page, http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/ http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/
crooked-v 8y ago
mosh uses Ctrl+^ for connection control stuff, IIRC, so you might want to give that a try.
rinon 8y ago
I love Blink, it’s perfect for a remote emacs session. I use esc for alt, capture CTRL-space. You may have to rebind some control sequences, I don’t have that handy, but almost everything gets passed through. Only thing I can think of that doesn’t is F key sequences, and that’s probably for lack of trying. Edit: this is with an external keyboard. YMMV with the on screen keyboard, but I haven’t noticed any issues the few times I’ve done quick edits with it.

frosty_sword 8y ago

I haven't tried this with a keyboard, but it's been working well for me sshing into my server and doing some small stuff with vim. https://github.com/tbodt/ish https://github.com/tbodt/ish

colordrops 8y ago

Why is everyone in this thread ignoring Android tablets? There are ports for most command line apps, including Emacs. Try Termux.

a_e_k 8y ago
I had the same thought. To give an example and add some context: just last week I thought of a possible bug and gap in the test coverage for a personal project. Within a Zsh prompt, I pulled the latest revision from Bitbucket using Mercurial, used Emacs (via the Hacker's Keyboard [1] soft keyboard) to edit the test suite and add a couple of lines, then used CMake to generate a makefile for GNU Make to build the project using Clang, and finally ran the test suite and confirmed the expected segfault. All of this was done locally (except for the pull, obviously) from within a Termux [2] session on a sub-$300 Android phone. Granted, the full test suite takes about 14x longer to run on my phone compared to my aging desktop and it's tedious to type very much, but as the old saying goes: "The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." [1] https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard [2] https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Main_Page, http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/ http://termux.net/dists/stable/main/binary-arm/

crooked-v 8y ago

mosh uses Ctrl+^ for connection control stuff, IIRC, so you might want to give that a try.

rinon 8y ago

I love Blink, it’s perfect for a remote emacs session. I use esc for alt, capture CTRL-space. You may have to rebind some control sequences, I don’t have that handy, but almost everything gets passed through. Only thing I can think of that doesn’t is F key sequences, and that’s probably for lack of trying. Edit: this is with an external keyboard. YMMV with the on screen keyboard, but I haven’t noticed any issues the few times I’ve done quick edits with it.