Slion 1,201 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 What are your recommendations for text and code editors on Android? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cube48 51 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Termux running emacs although it has steep learning curve it does much more than text editing. In the past I've used Turbo Editor. Edited January 26, 2020 by cube48 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob. S. 1,661 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 55 minutes ago, cube48 said: Termux running emacs Never! Termux running vim - or nothing at all! *g* 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cube48 51 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) How about termux running emacs running evil-mode? 😉 Edited January 25, 2020 by cube48 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob. S. 1,661 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Ha! Didn't even know of that one yet. Excellent! 🙂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
netman 1,424 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) I'm in the termux+vim camp, but for an actual android app that normal people may like I think Markor is worth a recommend:https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor/https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor&hl=en (Not a code editor, but plaintext and rich text as Markdown format) Edited January 26, 2020 by netman 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EskeRahn 5,460 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 @Slion, if everyone did like you and made a new thread on any thing they wondered or wished, without even doing a search first, this forum would quickly become an unusable mess. Or require a huge number of moderators finding and merging stuff..... 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slion 1,201 Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 1 hour ago, EskeRahn said: doing a search first But then I don't need a physical keyboard for that, do I? 😁 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doktor Oswaldo 904 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 While we all can agree that vim or neovim in termux is of course the superior way of text editing. There are two Issues which I like to bring in play: Is it possible to paste text from f.e. firefox to termux? Has someone else strange keys in termux? Like the `\` instead of `?` 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 1,435 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 I had noticed the similar issues in Termux until somebody mentioned in another thread it has its own keymap file. (Forgot exact location of file.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cube48 51 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Doktor Oswaldo said: Is it possible to paste text from f.e. firefox to termux? AFAIK you can paste into termux by tap'n'hold the screen as close as possible to your cursor position which opens small context menu with Paste option. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doktor Oswaldo 904 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 15 minutes ago, cube48 said: AFAIK you can paste into termux by tap'n'hold the screen as close as possible to your cursor position which opens small context menu with Paste option. Thank you, that sucks but still better than nothing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spam71 55 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 Quick Edit. It can highlight many languages. Paid version is worth its price. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.edit.pro&hl=en_US 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Craig 1,435 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, spam71 said: Quick Edit. That's something I haven't heard of in a while. Any connection to the the shareware dos/os2 versions from the 80s/90s? Edited January 28, 2020 by Craig 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rob. S. 1,661 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 17 hours ago, Craig said: Any connection to the the shareware dos/os2 versions from the 80s/90s? Now that you mention it, how about a feature request to run OS/2 on the Pro¹? 😉 (Just joking – I've been an OS/2 user at home for most of the nineties, then reluctantly moved to Windows, and finally have found peace with Linux 😉) 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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