Spyke
lemm.ee

I know, I know, but haven't you wanted to jot down some pseudocode while out and about, formatted neatly, so you could pop it over to your main machine to turn into working code?

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I mean yeah but not anywhere near badly enough to be willing to deal with a phone keyboard...

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Whatever notetaking app you use? If it's just jotting down some things I came up with on the go it won't be anything I need a whole ass IDE for, and I don't think I do anything like that often enough to need even a lightweight plaintext editor for that. I guess you could try use vim with termux, sounds like a pain in the arse with a phone keyboard though...

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lemmy.sdf.org

To be honest, Ed.

When I'm forced to edit text on my phone (eg. to fix a broken server while on the go), I ssh in and fire up ed. This is what takes the less screen space on my already to small screen, and because it's line oriented the screen doesn't bounce/resize/screw up when the keyboard appears/disappear.

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I wanted to mention a new open source project Xed-Editor.

Additionally, I think the (virtual) keyboard you use is just as important as the editor (assuming you aren't using a physical keyboard). I would recommend Unexpected Keyboard I have had a great experience with it.

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jaderoreply
programming.dev

I'm going to try Unexpected. The swipe for symbol reminds me of my favourite on-screen keyboard, Fitaly. Unfortunately, nobody ever made it available for modern smartphones.

Edit: The main thing I see missing is the option to swipe for uppercase. That may be possible in settings, but I didn't see it in a quick glance.

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I saw that. When I get a bit more time, I'll dig through their custom layout to see what I can figure out.

Thanks.

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Thank you for your suggestions. I'm trying Unexpected Keyboard right now.

It's very nice 😊🤩

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A long time ago I remember building a version of VS Code for Android that worked OK. Dunno if that's still available.

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jobyreply
programming.dev

On your phone? As someone who lives in emacs and has done aoc in the past, I'm impressed

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yep. in common lisp!

I did do some during downtime on the deskop at work. so it wasn't quite as extreme as it sounds. the worst part was the limited width of the screen. A bluetooth keyboard would have helped a lot, that's for sure.

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I've been using vscode in firefox via tunnel to my main machine on my android tablet and it's been working well enough

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