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Your comment made my week, I've been looking for a way to run Emacs (not remotely) on my iPad Pro since buying it in 2020. To confirm I just downloaded iSH and
by themmes 4y ago
Your comment made my week, I've been looking for a way to run Emacs (not remotely) on my iPad Pro since buying it in 2020. To confirm I just downloaded iSH and installed Emacs 27.2 (i586-alpine-linux-musl build) successfully. Now lets see what devilish compromises I need to make on keybindings..
- skhm 4y agoI can't mentally get over cringing while using ish, thinking about how many emulated x86 calls are being made under the hood, wasting the incredible CPU in the iPad. I tried emacs in it once and it was too slow to be usable - would be keen to hear if you get a performant setup.
- fsiefken 4y agoAs an alternative, using UTM with a lightweight linux distro might be more performant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfRJhJznzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfRJhJznzM Or just run alpine with openssh and ssh in locally through an iOS client. I'd be curious how running UTM/qemu continuously would affect battery life. Is it 10% or 50% less? 10% would be an acceptable trade off for me.
- saagarjha 4y agoI would be pretty surprised if it was more performant.
- ngcc_hk 4y agoHow to handle alt key. Most even ish just give you ctrl key
- saagarjha 4y agoTerminals don’t really have a concept of an alt key. Most map it to meta which you can get by tapping ⎋.