There are still some limitations, for instance it doesn’t seem to work with mosh, but there’s a PR waiting to be merged into upstream mosh which hopefully will make its way into blink soon after. Fortunately, the problem is mostly solved at this point. This is huge, and one of the things that when I first needed to copy something from blink was nearly a deal breaker for me, as I copy things out of my editor all the time, so having that be a bad experience was probably going to prevent me from being able to do this.
EMACS FOR MAC CODE
However, OSC52 allows your terminal application (such as emacs, vim, tmux, etc) to send its own clipboard contents down, so you can use those applications’ native copy/paste functionality to manipulate the clipboard on iOS, making it easy to, say, copy some code from a file and paste it into a discord conversation, or a gist. Now take things like terminal gui elements into consideration, and it’s basically impossible to copy/paste from the terminal by hand. If you’ve ever highlighted text on iOS you understand just how hard it can be. This is something I only recently discovered, but the general gist of it is that it allows terminal applications to manipulate the clipboard on the client system. One thing I discovered recently that it had was support for OSC52 terminal sequences.
It *is* open source, which is nice, as that allows for auditability and also allows me to try to fix bugs or implement features if I feel up to the challenge.
EMACS FOR MAC FREE
It’s not a free app, but I’m totally fine with paying for good software. It also provides an extremely basic text interface for commands, which is nice, I primarily live in the command line and on my keyboard, not having to tap my way through menus and such to do things is a huge plus. There’s so much more to it than that, but it has the basic functionality I need: terminal emulation, ability to configure ssh key authentication, ability to do ssh agent forwarding (I won’t be covering this here, as I’m on the lookout for alternatives and it’s been covered elsewhere). Blinkshellīlinkshell is a terminal emulator, ssh, and mosh client for iOS. And the best experience for that is, in my opinion, a terminal. So, as a result, I need a machine somewhere I can run emacs on and have it display on my iPad. I mentioned that emacs is a gui application framework, and it is, but as part of that framework it has its own programming language, emacs lisp, which powers not only custom things, but a lot of emacs’ own built in functionality. Largely in part due to application restrictions on iOS making code interpretation not a supported thing, which is fundamental not only to the emacs experience, but fundamental to emacs operation as a whole. I’ll talk about org-roam in another post.Įmacs doesn’t have a native iOS port and it is highly unlikely that it ever will. I primarily use emacs as an editor, however, and I primarily use emacs over other editors because of org-mode and org-roam. It has support for both terminal ui (tui) or actual native gui (gui) interfaces, and can do so much more than editing text.
EMACS FOR MAC SKIN
In my case, I’m using the doom-emacs package, which provides me with a very comfortable user experience pretty much out of the gate, and since I’ve been a vim user for so long, the adjustment wasn’t that significant.Įmacs is a gui application framework wearing the skin of a text editor. I’m not one of those old school emacs users, I’m one of the new young punks using someone else’s emacs. I run emacs as my primary editor/IDE/operating system.
EMACS FOR MAC MAC
The finished product: emacs running on a Mac Mini that I’m using Blinkshell to connect to with mosh over a Tailscale VPN connection Emacs Note that this setup of course requires network connectivity between the iPad and the Mac Mini, and there are some complications with that, but I’ll try to cover those later in the post.
The combination of the above gives me a nearly desktop-native experience running emacs and other terminal applications on my iPad. TL DRįor the impatient, and also to serve as an outline for the post, I’ll just list out the tools I’m using to make this happen.
EMACS FOR MAC SERIES
In this, the first of what I plan as a series of posts about my journey, I’ll outline what I’m currently using to be able to use emacs from my iPad. Lately I’ve been working on a setup such that I can use my iPad as my primary desktop, at least for personal tasks.
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