emacs crashes on startup

[fornwall]

Emacs seems to crash on startup a lot.

One working configuration is Android 5.1 with more columns than 72.

[bet]

Android 6.0 works with my phone landscape, too, hangs buzzing with it portrait. Nexus 5 stock Marshmallow.

[jasalt]

I'm hoping for mg (micro emacs) package meanwhile this is broken.

[timoc]

i have this same issue with crashing emacs. i would prefer jasspa though, as it has much better support for macros etc.

[bet]

I'm using zile, it doesn't cover the range of functions as gnu emacs, but, like my personal favourite jove, it's closer in weight (disk and memory footprint, and cpu) to vi, while still having an emacs editing model and keybindings.

[timoc]

I saw zile in the package list. I will check it out, but jasspa has all of that that and spell checking etc.

[fornwall]

There is hope :)! I have update the emacs package to version 25.0.92, which is a prerelease for the upcoming 25.1 version of emacs. This update, together with more patching of emacs to make it work, should lead to emacs starting up regardless of screen size - re-open this issue if it still crashes!

[bet]

First time I installed it on my Nexus 5, it crashed, whether in portrait or landscape. However, after uninstalling and reinstalling Termux from f-droid, it worked. Thanks!

[fornwall]

Yes, those who previously installed the old version of the package can update to the new one with apt update && apt upgrade.

[timoc]

Worked with an:

apt-get update ;  apt-get autoremove ; apt-get autoclean ; apt-get upgrade