kobo-emacs (or vim)

The Kobo Clara BW is a great platform for emacs via efbpad. This project describes a build process for native terminal emacs on the Clara BW. It should extend directly to other devices too. The build process is uncomplicated but fairly long. It is described in BUILD.md.. It should be followed by spirit and not by letter! vim, which relies on only a subset of emacs's dependencies, is included

Here is a video of it in action

Criticism and problems are included in TODO.md

This is completely untested works-for-me-ware. Although this doesn't touch any non-user directories, you could still brick your device if you don't know what you're doing so be careful.

Prebuilt image

Instead of compiling everything you can try things out with a (maybe out-of-date) pre-built image from here:

• Install efbpad and ensure it's working
• From the zip move onboard/.efbpad_profile and onboard/.localfs.img onto /mnt/onboard. The kobo's shipped tar seems to have issues unzipping large files there so they should be transferred to the device directly.
• emacs should now be in the PATH.

You should still read BUILD.md for information on how to configure things.