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Just downloaded it. Here are a few things to note:

- As soon as installed, the app will download emacs from a 3rd party repo. You have the option to specify your own, I picked the default one.

- The app consists apparently of a terminal emulator and a Bourne shell (clone?). emacs will reside inside this emulator and the shell.

- The app seems very young, segfaults are frequent. A common cause seems to be font-size. If font size != 20px at startup, app will segfault. (you can change it once the app is running).

- The buffers do not resize dynamically when I show/hide the keyboard. On my SGS2 in landscape mode, that leaves very little screen space for the buffers.

- The app greatly benefits from Hacker's Keyboard or any similar advanced keyboard.

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