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Re:Buttery smooth Emacs (2016) by leoc on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:47AM (#18768773)
> I was planning on taking on porting Emacs to the iPad

I thought that was impossible anyway, given Apple's prohibitions on both GPL code and software runtimes in iOS apps? However I suppose Emacs could be sideloaded onto jailbroken iPads.

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Re:Buttery smooth Emacs (2016) by jwr on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:48PM (#18786405)
What exactly is impossible?

I can run any software I want on my iPad. No need to jailbreak. Just get Xcode and enjoy the freedom. Who said I need to upload it to the App Store?

(as a side note, these prohibitions seem to have been relaxed in recent years)

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