Not Emacs

I think this is it, a text editor I can actually use on my iPhone! if only there were a way to use the iOS “open in” capability to transfer files to and from other apps, it would do everything I need it to.

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It's impossible to get text out of it into another editor. In true Emacs style, the Emacs kill ring is not integrated with the iOS pasteboard. After much searching, I found a non-standard copy_for_operating_system command, whose keybinding did not work. Invoked with M-x, it displays the region and says: Press Ctrl-C to copy. Doesn't work. And it won't let me select it either to copy via the standard iOS (context menu) method. The file can be written into some sort of iCloud area, but that has been irretrievable so far. If you can't get your text out of the editor, what's the point? Not Emacs is missing many features standard to Emacs. Major modes are not included (no syntax highlighting or special functions for, e.g. TeX). So I'm not sure what I could possibly do with this app (as opposed to a better designed text editor). So far, it only ate my text and I'll have to re-type it.

Nice approach to have a good text editor in iOS. I was unable to find out how to use iCloud with NotEmacs. Any hint on how to do that? Otherwise, it would be very helpful to have the "open in..." feature available for NotEmacs. Thanks for making this App available!

Fantastic...This works great. I can finally stop ssh-ing into a host to use Emacs from my phone. Marc has written some great tools for iOS (eg Gambit REPL), and now this great iOS editor.

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I love Emacs. I’ve used it since Emacs 17 and before. But I can’t use this. It doesn’t accept my Elisp code, and it doesn’t have equivalents. It doesn’t have the suite of accompanying programs so necessary to using Emacs—aspell, latex, wc, etc. And it doesn’t have filesystem access. More than anything else, a lack of a real filesystem cripples it. I have high hopes that this can integrate with iCloud Drive / Files, but suspect it has to wait on Apple to allow interpreters to run on such files.