Re: Android port of Emacs

[Gregory Heytings]

> AFAICT you're the one who's saying we should choose one 
> (Emacs-via-Termux/X11) over the other (Emacs/Android).

To set the record straight: no, that's not what I was telling.  I was not 
objecting the inclusion of the Android branch, what I objected to is the 
way Termux was portrayed.  It's a project to which tens if not hundreds of 
people contributed during almost a decade, and I find the way it was 
depicted here inappropriate (to say it charitably).  I'm the only one who 
protested, so I guess I'm the only one to think that.

Many people (I believe O(1000) people, given the results of the latest 
Emacs survey), including (full disclosure) myself, use Emacs inside 
Termux, either in the Termux terminal or with Termux:X11, and it works 
perfectly for them.  See for example Artur Malabarba's blog report [1], 
under which someone asked him "Can you see any theoretical advantage that 
a Native Emacs on Android might have?", to which he replied "I don't 
really see any obvious advantages, except maybe performance."  And that 
was in 2016, in the meantime the situation has improved, in particular 
with Termux:X11 (in which, unlike what has been claimed, input methods 
work perfectly well, and which supports touch events just fine).

There is no need to belittle a project to support another project.  Each 
one has its strengths and weaknesses.  Given how my feedback has been 
received in this thread however, I will not further detail what I believe 
are the respective strengths and weaknesses of these two projects.

[1] http://endlessparentheses.com/running-emacs-on-android.html