From Newsgroup: comp.mobile.android

Marian <marian@dumbshits.com> writes:

I'm traveling using someone else's laptop so please don't whine that you
know who I am 'cuz if you don't, you're a moron so don't claim you're a genius for figuring out who I am (as that just proves you're an idiot).

I saw the message by "T" asking about plain text editors, where my need is that I often copy text files over from Windows to accessible Android
folders on the sdcard0 and sdcard1 partitions, and then I want to edit them (and save them) using that Android text editor.

In the past, I've been able to edit them but not save them given some apps will only save to their own private space, which isn't what I want as I
want the closest thing to a normal PC text editor as Android can give me.

For example, often unless you open the file through the Android Storage Access Framework (the system file picker), edits may not be written back to the original file but only to the editor's own private sandboxed space. And even then, may text editors onlyl have a single data file, where they make multiple text files "tabs" inside a single binary file. I don't want that.

I don't want single binary file with tabs nonsense.
Each text file stays a separate file and gets saved where it was found.

Looking up the requirements (it also has to be free, registration free and
ad free of course, and hopefully gsf free also), these may fit the bill.

Xed-Editor
<https://f-droid.org/packages/com.rk.xededitor/>
<https://github.com/Xed-Editor/Xed-Editor/releases>

Markor
<https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/>
<https://github.com/gsantner/markor/releases>

Simple Text Editor (by Bill Farmer)
<https://f-droid.org/packages/org.billthefarmer.editor/
<https://github.com/billthefarmer/editor> (src only?)

Ted (Text Editor) (src only?)
<https://github.com/xgouchet/Ted>

QuickEdit (Community Edition)
<https://github.com/SomiSrbija/QuickEdit/releases>

Simple Mobile Tools Editor (community fork on F-Droid)
<https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.editor/>

JotaTextEdit (src only?)
<https://github.com/jiro-aqua/JotaTextEditor>

Of these, given I want open-with integration from a file manager,
Xed-Editor is the most straightforward choice since it is open source, ad-free, no registration, and works with Android's file pickers.

Anyone have experience with those given this situation:
a. A text file is already sitting somewhere on Android.
b. The Android file picker can find it & present a list of editors.
c. One of those editors is one of the above text editors.
d. That text editor edits that text file & saves it back where it was.

I understand I'm late to the fray, but Emacs's port to Android, which is
not to be confused with terminal-only Emacs binaries installed in
Termux, supports editing files and directories provided by the storage
access framework, as documented here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Android-Document-Providers.html
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