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I've used a similar setup a lot, but in the terminal, with Termux and vim. Together with PentiKeyboard it's actually rather nice for casual programming and data exploration.

I found Doom Emacs to be a bit too heavy-weight but it works and on a fiercer machine than my aging handhelds it would probably be fine.

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There is also nix-on-droid[1] which is a fork of Termux allowing you to manage your environment with nix (similar to home-manager[2])

[1]: https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid

[2]: https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager

This is exactly what I do in the article ;) Nix-on-droid is awesome

Yes, that's what TFA introduces.

Emacs itself added support for Android, so you can find Emacs proper in package managers like f-droid, or even build it yourself.

Seeing as you can do most things from Emacs, as well as making Emacs as light as you wish, it might replace termux + vim altogether, especially now that it comes with a lsp client builtin.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm terminally addicted so even if I were more into Emacs I'd like to have Termux and tmux. Among other things I've got a rig for going from Internet video streams and podcasts to mpv audio that I'd probably wouldn't want to reimplement in elisp.

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