Notices

The standard GNU Emacs takes up around 78 Mb of disk space.
My port of emacs is the standard GNU emacs, so you get the same amount of disk space used.

However, you can install applications as well as part of the OS itself on external media, but that involves some more hacking. Some people on these forums are very knowledgeable on this topic. I'm not. I just know that some people boot from external media. Maybe someone can step in and tell us what is possible precisely.

Thanks in advance.

Ulysses

Hello everybody,

Given the size taken up by emacs on the device, naturally, there has been some concern. Someone suggested to get rid of certain not-often files, another person inquired about installing the application on external media.

After giving this question a thought, I decided to provide the community with the full unabridged version of emacs. This way, we can work in any direction from that ideal point. Some people will want to keep everything on their device, others will reduce that size or adopt different strategies. Please post on this thread the solutions you found, I will compile the information and make it available on the homepage of the project. Contributors will be fully credited.

If you write scripts to clean up the installation, you are welcome to post them as well.

Good luck, Ulysses

Hello everybody,

I am happy to announce that the official homepage for the emacs port is up and running.

http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/m...acs-for-maemo/

All the juicy information on this thread has been compiled and edited on the homepage.

Additionally, you will find the GNU gzip package needed to browse info files with emacs.

Thanks to everybody who contributed.

Ulysses

Those who voiced concerns about the size of the emacs installation on their devices will be happy to know that a simple solution exists. Someone has posted his findings on the new homepage of the project :
http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/mine/emacs-for-maemo

To sum up his findings, simply moving /usr/share/emacs to external media (/media/mmc2) and then symlinking to it works!

Good luck,

Ulysses

a special version of gzip is not necessary (and breaks dependencies if installed as .deb) because the behaviour of busybox gzip implies -q.

The call to gzip can be customized in emacs

M-x customize-apropos jka-comp-compression

then edit the compress arguments for gzip, that is remove the parameter "-q"

Cheers

I'd love to get emacs running on my n810, but I can't download the package - the download starts but then hangs after only about 70K - is this a temporary problem? Can someone point me to another download location?

Thanks,

Amy

I've had no trouble downloading the packages. I put copies up at:
http://vh213601.truman.edu/~belanger....1-1_armel.deb
and
http://vh213601.truman.edu/~belanger....1-1_armel.deb
I'll leave them there for a while.

Jay

What's new on the emacs front?

1, Spell check

A GNU aspell package for maemo is now available. It's barebones, but it works. If someone has time on his hands and wants to contribute, he'll be welcome to make some friendlier packages. For now, aspell installs as root from the terminal, and you have to manually copy the dictionary files from an existing emacs installation.

2, The project migrates its downloads from a private server to garage.maemo.org. The time being, both are available.

Official homepage stays the same.
http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/m...acs-for-maemo/

Happy emacsing,

Ulysses

I've got the gtk interface to run. Not much difference from X version though.No hildon keyboard but font looks better than X version and menus are "sticky".

Soon as I get a hex editor, I'll release the modified debs.

Ok, it's done.

You need Ulysses's emacs port to run this. X version or non x is up to you. Bear in mind that this is an X version with some GTK enhancements.

This wasn't compiled by me. I just modified the deb file.
What I did though is sort it out so it works with Ulysses's port (changing directory paths), fixing the menu item and compiling the libgif dependency. I also cut down the size and I made it not write anything to the emacs directory incase you moved it onto a fat partition (i.e me). Don't worry, you aren't missing anything, it just writes a useless doc file.

Advantage over X version:
-Looks better (font wise)
- Menus are bigger and easier (and hildon style)

Disadvantage:
- Open dialog is a bit big but I read you can customise it.



Install Ulysses's port and install these debs with dpkg -i.

http://www.mediafire.com/?c3jtddbdiy1
http://www.mediafire.com/?mnmf1dt3mjb

Note: Aspell with en dictionaries built in:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...3&postcount=41