Emacs 29.1(emacsredux.com)
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Emacs 29.1
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/
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One of my favorite aspect of Emacs is its configuration file. I use an org-mode file for configuration - which means that we can have rich documentation along with the code - all neatly folded up. The init.el file is just a stub meant to load the configuration from the org-mode file. Even better - the init.el itself is written within the org-mode file. The org-mode file can be executed like a shell script (actually elisp script) to extract the init.el file.
Similar executable org-mode files are used to configure the environment (sway) and personal information management (email, calendar & contacts). The latter one got so complicated that I had to add an integration diagram using the draw.io app.
Similar executable org-mode files are used to configure the environment (sway) and personal information management (email, calendar & contacts). The latter one got so complicated that I had to add an integration diagram using the draw.io app.
Treesitter and eglot are excellent. I am moving from vscode back to emacs and do far it’s been a great experience. Should’ve done that a long time ago.
Off-topic: what is an emacs quality alternative for docker? It’s such a piece of garbage for something so pervasive.
Off-topic: what is an emacs quality alternative for docker? It’s such a piece of garbage for something so pervasive.
I'd really love Emacs to have native JPEG XL support. For I use Emacs as a pictures viewer and the only thing preventing me from converting all my family pictures from JPEG to JPEG XL (it's a 22% saving which results in JPEG XL files that can be converted back, bit-for-bit, to the original JPEG file) is the lack of Emacs support for JPEG XL.
Does anyone know if it's coming? Anything in the JPEG XL or JPEG XL libs license that makes it a problem to incorporate in Emacs?
Does anyone know if it's coming? Anything in the JPEG XL or JPEG XL libs license that makes it a problem to incorporate in Emacs?
Looks good. For me, the best recent feature is native compilation so Emacs feels super fast and responsive. I often use macOS and I wonder is going to GTK will help a lot there?
Really happy to see this. I've been using Emacs 29+ for the past while and have enjoyed simplifying my configuration now that use-package is OOTB. I think now is a really excellent time to try Emacs if you haven't already.
I put together a simple tool to generate a starter Emacs config from a few configurable options, which I can now update to point at a proper release channel instead of a prerelease:
https://emacs-config-generator.fly.dev/
I put together a simple tool to generate a starter Emacs config from a few configurable options, which I can now update to point at a proper release channel instead of a prerelease:
https://emacs-config-generator.fly.dev/
> Emacs is now capable of editing files with very long lines.
The display of long lines has been optimized, and Emacs should no
longer choke when a buffer on display contains long lines. The
variable 'long-line-threshold' controls whether and when these display
optimizations are in effect.
Yes!
Yes!
NEWS: <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/NEWS?h=...>
Official release announcement: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00008...>
Official release announcement: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00008...>
What an amazing release. Thank you to all that contributed and made it happen!
Took a new job and ended up putting emacs aside. Using Google's Lit framework is unbearable on emacs. It has some deeply nested html/js in template strings and emacs can't keep up with the nesting.
Every single time i open up the tutorials on how to learn emacs, a million other priorities come along. I know there are die hard fans of it, and I'd love to learn it, but with VSCode, vi, tmux, and all the MacOS tools i know, I'm not sure I'll get around to learning it before i burn out completely from engineering
Does intellisense like autocomplete now work out of the box? Is company bundled in, as of recent versions? Is there any dependency on Clang to get it working for C/C++ code?
emacs has never been in better shape
It's a shame modern distros don't ship with it...
Which version am I running yet? (I know it's not too old for I regularly compile Emacs from source)
ELISP> (emacs-version)
"GNU Emacs 29.0.60 ..."
I haven't touched my emacs config in a while, looks like it's due for a big update! I'm excited!
Thank you Eli !!!
For Clojure there's nothing better than Emacs + CIDER/nREPL. I've tried Calva/VS Code, Conjure/NeoVim and Cursive/IntelliJ but none of them come close. Maybe it's the ELisp foundation facilitating code-as-data.
Sadly this doesn't play well with fzf-el (at least not with fzf-find-file). I've entered a ticket on the fzf.el github, but it seems a mostly dead or dying project.
Anyone else use fzf successfully with 29.x?
Anyone else use fzf successfully with 29.x?
Is performance any better than 28 on Mac？ I recently tried putting 28 on my work M1 and magit diffing on the status screen, where you can roll up diff hunks by hitting minus, was unusably slow on large files. My own Linux laptop has no such problem.
What does a new release like this mean for popular frameworks like spacemacs or doom emacs?
E.g. for lsp support, are the frameworks switching to the native one or are they going to rely on their current setup for now? Or is there no common approach?
E.g. for lsp support, are the frameworks switching to the native one or are they going to rely on their current setup for now? Or is there no common approach?
Right, emacs upgrade is now added to the list of things to do on my day off tomorrow.
Nothing kills it!
I am an Emacs enjoyer. My biggest issue with Emacs is that development is still done via a mailing list and patches. I wish they would adopt a Git front-end (web UI) workflow.
I love Emacs (it was my main editor in the last 20 years) but i can't justify anymore to use it due to lack of modern feature, ease of use and maintenance of the .emacs files. Maybe i'm getting too old to constant exercise my memory or to tinker configuration files. Nowadays i just use VSCode and occasionally nvim.
Is the configuration still "paste this mystery lisp code somewhere in a config / ini file in x,y,z place" or is it finally plug-and-play like in VSC?
GNU Emacs is now dependent on TreeSitter which is a MIT-licensed project and LSP which is a Microsoft project. Also built-in support for non-gnu packages to install. Soon it will be a non-gnu project entirely. I think it's a bit sad that the ideological basis is beginning to be abandoned but I think there is not enough believers in the ideology anymore.
I would say most modern editors (Helix, Neovim) do TreeSitter and LSP better than Emacs today and probably for many years to come
I would say most modern editors (Helix, Neovim) do TreeSitter and LSP better than Emacs today and probably for many years to come
Every time a new IDE arrived, crowds cheered, and it was all the rage and fashion, while my Emacs was called "obsolete", "hard to use", "bizarre", and other things. I spent some time over those 30 years looking at new IDEs, trying them out, configuring them, and each and every time this was time wasted, because the IDE was discontinued, abandoned, or otherwise became useless.
If I could tell something to my younger self, it would be: keep faith in solutions that are open and have been around for a while, you will save a lot of time over the years.