omg ; I just turned off backups/autosave ; then I overwrote my http://emacs.org

I think this means I just nuked my entire eamcs config file 😞

emacs rewritten -- henceforth, I shall git commig every day

commit

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From the "How did I not know this?" department: In all helm buffers you can enable "follow mode" using C-c C-f, which lets you cycle through results while seeing the occurrences in context in the main window

For search in context there is also the awesome helm-swoop 😀

paredit key binding does not work for me when I'm connecting on an android device. for example ctrl-arrows do not work

it works however when I'm connecting from a normal ubuntu latop

any idea why it paredit keybindings don't work when connecting from an android device?

@sonnyto try calling the function describe-key and make sure that the C-<arrow> is actually being passed through from the OS properly to emacs. It's possible that it's grabbing that keyboard combination long before it makes its way into emacs

@tanzoniteblack thanks. you're right. the ctrl is not sent. emacs just sees an arrow key

any idea how do I force android to send the ctrl key?

strange thing is the other key bindings using ctrl works

just the ctrl-arrow combination doesnt work

no idea, sorry. I don't think I've ever tried to use emacs on Android before

thanks. my first time too. i'm traveling and my laptop died. so now i'm coding on a 7" android tablet via ssh. everything works except paredit. without paredit manipulating sexpressions manually is a pain in the butt

You could try re-binding the paredit keys to M-( and M-) (which are the default of smartparens, I think)

at least solves your problem of not having access to those functions

even if it will annoy you everytime you go to use them because your muscle memory is leading you astray

found an ssh client on android that works with paredit emacs keybindings. its life saver! now I can ssh into my linux box to code from android device. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux

@tanzoniteblack thanks for the tip on rebinding. but i found an ssh client that works

awesome, much better idea!

@plexus and I talked today about the possibility of a structural editor using touch gestures

think "expand" and "contract" gestures

so many possibilities