Re: text editor

Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote or quoted:

still quite akward to use. Also the CUI (Character/'Console' UI) of vim
doesn't quite fit the GUI of Android.

   That's what I liked about Android 2.2. You could install
  "TerminalIDE", which would open a terminal and give you a
  fully-fledged UN*X environment with a kind of bash, vim and
  a java compiler, aapt, apkbuilder, signer and the usual GNU
  tools so you could develop Java apps for Android on Android
  and then also start them from the command line.
   I developed some simple apps in this shell editing them with
  vim on my Android device.
   But then Google changed something, and, today, such things do
  not seem to be possible anymore.

  There are still several Linux environments for Android, Termux,
Andronix, UserLAnd, etc.. Just search the Google Play website on "linux"
and you'll find them. Termux seems to have some problems with newer
Android versions, but the Google Play page explains how to get other
versions from github.
  My 'knowledge' about these is only theoretical and from (positive)
hearsay. I do not have practical experience with these, because I have
all the Unix-like stuff I need on my Windows laptop (Cygwin). This very
post is brought to you by courtesy of vim and tin! :-)