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+#+date: <2024-07-11 Thu 20:24:02>
+#+title: Emacs on iPadOS
+#+description: Learn how to install and use Emacs on the Apple Silicon iPad natively.
+
+
+This post describes the process to install and use Emacs on the iPad Air
+13-inch (M2). The iPad used in this post is running iPadOS 17.6.
+
+** Shell Application
+
+In order to use Emacs on an iPad, you will need a terminal emulator
+application. I recommend
+[[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ish-shell/id1436902243][iSH]], since it
+runs a version of Alpine Linux within the app itself and will allow you
+to install packages that you need.
+
+#+caption: iSH Application
+[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20240711-emacs-on-ipad/ish.png]]
+
+** Require Packages
+
+I started by adding the required packages directly within iSH. Emacs
+should install dependencies by default, but I include a few other
+packages that I use in my terminal as well.
+
+#+begin_src sh
+apk add emacs ripgrep fd findutils
+#+end_src
+
+#+caption: Package !Installation
+[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20240711-emacs-on-ipad/dependencies.png]]
+
+** Emacs
+
+Once this is complete, you should be able to run Emacs natively on your
+iPad. It's effective, but can be slow at times.
+
+I attempted to also install Doom Emacs, which technically worked, but
+was so incredibly slow and buggy that I was not even able to take
+screenshots. Someone smarter than me could likely get it to work with a
+little tinkering.
+
+#+caption: Emacs
+[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20240711-emacs-on-ipad/emacs.png]]
+
+*** MELPA
+
+You also have to remember to hook up MELPA yourself in the =.emacs= file
+to be able to search through their 5700+ packages instead of just ELPA
+packages. If you don't, you will only have access to ELPA packages like
+the ones below.
+
+#+caption: package-install
+[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20240711-emacs-on-ipad/melpa.png]]
+
+Once you have MELPA, you can install packages like the =dashboard=
+package shown below.
+
+#+caption: emacs-dashboard
+[[https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20240711-emacs-on-ipad/dashboard.png]]
+
+*** Speed
+
+While Emacs will run on my iPad, it's not perfect. The largest issue on
+my iPad is speed - loading Emacs takes 6-7 seconds and installing the
+=magit= package took 129 seconds.
+
+I haven't played around enough to optimize loading times and poke around
+to see why the network requests take so long, but it's a big enough
+issue that I wouldn't see casual Emacs users dealing with the lag.