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I get excited every time I see an article about using the iPad Pro for development. But then it always turns out that people just use blink to ssh/mosh into ano
by jwr 8y ago
I get excited every time I see an article about using the iPad Pro for development. But then it always turns out that people just use blink to ssh/mosh into another machine.
I really wish I could have native Emacs on the iPad. It is one of the fastest and lightest machines around, phenomenally lightweight and with a great battery life. It has a pretty good keyboard attachment. And Emacs even without a native shell would work pretty well (using Tramp for editing remote files).
And no, Emacs via a shell is not nearly enough. You can't get enough modifiers through the TTY, so it ends up being crippled. And no, Apple is not likely to reject it, apps with interpreters have been getting in for several years now. And even if Apple were to reject it, there is nothing that prevents people (as in, me, for example) from compiling Emacs myself and loading it onto my iPad (these are common misconceptions, so I'd rather clear them up right away).
I think I might end up funding a bounty, perhaps someone is willing to shave this yak.
- clairity 8y agoi tried a cloud-based editor & dev environment when the ipad pro first came out, and the biggest problem was missing/hard-to-emulate keyboard shortcuts (even with the keyboard cover). after that, the awkwardness of having to use touch in place of a mouse was also difficult to adjust to. i've mainly used the ipad pro as my companion notebook replacement, using the notes app with a pencil. i had hoped by now that all handwritten text would be OCR'ed and searchable, but alas that's been limited to one mode of the notes app so far. such a promising machine crippled by the indecision of not knowing what it wants to be when it grows up!
- BonesJustice 8y agoWouldn’t the locked-down filesystem be a problem?