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Re:Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDriv... by ams6110 on Monday August 13, 2012 @08:31PM (#4378841)
You might not even need to implement all of emacs, just emacsclient and have the emacs daemon running on the server.

But why does everything need to run in the browser? You have a perfectly good OS and you can run Emacs natively and use tramp to open remote files over ssh. I do it every day, it's awesome because I'm using my local emacs configured the way I like it and I can edit files on any server that has sshd running. Problem solved.

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Re:Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDriv... by Tcepsa on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:50AM (#4380608)
It'd be nifty if I could have the power of Emacs available to me on a tablet. Since I don't imagine anyone's going to port it soon, being able to use it in a browser seems like the only way that's going to happen.
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Re:Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDriv... by cycojesus on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @09:11AM (#4380697)
It's running right now on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zielm.emac...

It's even 24.1. I only have patchy wifi now so I haven't been able to finish the install yet on my tablet but it installed and ran M-x tetris just fine on my phone.

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Re:Show HN: Ymacs - Emacs in the browser with Dropbox, GDriv... by Tcepsa on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @03:28PM (#4382675)
I stand corrected and am looking forward to giving it a spin--thanks for pointing this out!
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