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The Google play version was crippled beyond being practical anyway. Can't SMS, can't GPS, no access to address book.

The usable version is from F-Droid. And I had to install that one just to install Termux. No need to root your phone. Simply install F-Droid app store, and install from there.

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I'm very new to Termux and recently installed the Google Play version. If I install the F-Droid version will it have access to all storage, such that I could edit Dropbox files in emacs and have them automatically sync?

Afaik you gain access to ‘sd card‘ storage by running ‘termux-setup-storage’ once, regardless of the store used. See here: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storage

From there, it would depend on whether you have synchronization that actually monitors files on the ‘sd card’ storage.

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