On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:25:31PM +0100, David Kuehling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I now have a first, experimental version of Emacs for nanonote, see
> openwrt-packages.git on qi-hardware.com.  Screenshot is here:
> 
>   http://mosquito.dyndns.tv/david/nanonote/emacs.png
> 
> Emacs is not only an editor, it's more like a window-manager, a desktop
> and an operating system that just happens to have an editor built in :)
> 
> So what this gives us is:
> 
>   - Support for inputting japanese/chinese/korean/russian etc. from a
>     utf-8 capable terminal (Try: <Esc> x set-terminal-coding-system <Ret>
>     utf-8 <Ret> <Esc> x set-buffer-file-coding-system japanese <Ret>)
>     (Need to run emacs from fbterm!)
> 
>   - syntax-hilighting/auto-indent for most languages around
> 
>   - An RPN calculator (<Esc> x calc)
> 
>   - A simple calculator (<Esc> x calculator)
> 
>   - A calendar (<Esc> x calendar)
> 
>   - Window-management/history/command line editing for multiple terminal
>     applications (Try <Esc> x run-python, <Esc> x run-tcl , <Esc> x
>     shell, <Esc> x eshell <Esc> x eshell, etc.)
> 
>   - a number of games  (<Esc> x dungeon , <Esc> x tetris etc.)
> 
>   - Support for WYSIWYG editing of simply formatted text (<Esc> x
>     enriched-mode)
> 
>   - A lisp interpreter !  :)
> 
> and a lot of more stuff I can't think of right now.
> 
> Note that this package is work-in-progress and experimental.  Startup
> time is about a minute since no image-generation ("dump") is currently
> done yet.  RAM is scarce.  Trying to input japanese Kanji loads the
> kanji dictionary and causes out-of-memory killing).  Need to see how to
> trim everything down a bit.
> 

The last time I ported emacs to a memory limited platform, I had to
remove the multi-language input support.  I think I was disk space
constrained, rather than memory constrained, at the time.

This is a fantastic port, thank you for working on it.

-Alan
-- 
.i ko djuno fi le do sevzi

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