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As part of this, I want to get my .emacs under version control and shared between computers so I have the same settings everywhere. Is there a good way to do that with Emacs packages installed through MELPA/ELPA?
btw, windows binary build https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/ (from 2h ago)
Is Emacs all that useful on Windows where even the most basic Unix commands aren't available? Is M-x grep even available? Or does Emacs require a Cygwin / Ubuntu Subsystem?
Somewhat related: I am starting a new job soon and I want to get Emacs setup "right" this time. I've been using Aquamacs for the last several years, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to use Emacs on the Mac these days? As part of this, I want to get my .emacs under version control and shared between computers so I have the same settings everywhere. Is there a good way to do that with Emacs packages installed…
When you setup your `init.el` you can call `(package-install x)` and if the package is already installed it'll do nothing but just make sure it's there.
If you wanted the whole thing figured out ahead of time I recommend using Spacemacs[1]
[0]: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport [1]: http://spacemacs.org
Having been using emacs on and off, both on Windows and Linux, and having found it being useful on some occasions, I somehow can't help thinking of it as more of a historical artifact than a toolset I would want to use on a daily basis. Being a very powerful personal computing environment and kinda fun to use, to me emacs still falls short in the ways that, for instance, UNIX command line interface with its simple si…
Visual Studio? What if you are on a Mac? Xcode?, what about linux? Code blocks?
And then what about email and tasks? Gmail? Outlook? Wunderlist?
And notes? Google Keep? Evernote?, wait, no Onenote!, but then they dont have a linux client.
What about file management? Total commander on a PC?, Forklift on a mac? and mc on Ubuntu?
What about sharing settings and shortcuts between all these across multiple OSs?
I use Emacs for all this and it works the same on every OS.
It's a portable OS/Lisp Machine.
Emacs VC mode has a bug where all listed files in the vc-dir buffer are shown with their basenames for at least Git and CVS repositories, and for CVS it renders the mode unusable. I made a patch but I guess they're waiting my paperwork (copyright assignment) to arrive so it couldn't make it for this release. Here is the patch: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24082 for whoever uses vc-git and vc-cvs. It'…
But please get through with the paperwork. That way your patch can be applied to the master branch, and it will be available in emacs 25.2.
Great news and congrats to everyone involved! Among the highlights of this release is Xwidgets, which allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside Emacs buffers. One such widget is WebKitGTK+, a full-featured port of WebKit for use in GTK+ apps. As a consequence of this you can now browse the internet and maybe watch some YouTube inside Emacs [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4srze9/watching_yout...
I wonder if those widgets require GTK support in Emacs. I compile a plain X support for my emacs only, because with GTK it doesn't stay up for months without crashing. I had an emacs server with 180 day uptime the other day. Maybe on my work machine that is Windows anyway, I can try this out. :>
Somewhat related: I am starting a new job soon and I want to get Emacs setup "right" this time. I've been using Aquamacs for the last several years, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to use Emacs on the Mac these days? As part of this, I want to get my .emacs under version control and shared between computers so I have the same settings everywhere. Is there a good way to do that with Emacs packages installed…
I like brew installing `emacs-mac`[0] which installs a port run by a developer in Japan. My favorite feature of it (among other amazing osx specific changes) is the sub-pixel scrolling support in emacs. When you setup your `init.el` you can call `(package-install x)` and if the package is already installed it'll do nothing but just make sure it's there. If you wanted the whole thing figured out ahead of time I recomm…
Spacemacs looks cool. I have so many years of emacs keybindings that I'd have to turn that off, but I really like the look of what they're building.
Emacs being able to load shared/dynamic libraries is huge; it means we'll be able to load so files from a user's home directory, or the standard lib paths, and use foreign functions to extend Emacs. And with XWidgets... Well, now you could write an OpenGL game that uses an OpenAL audio layer and displays in an Emacs frame, all in elisp. Because, why not?
Interesting, I wrote such an emacs FFI about 15 years ago, but RMS was fundamentally opposed to it. Gtk-emacs was then based on a smaller scale FFI, but a more generic exposed FFI was still devilish. I wanted to use a proper AutoLISP environment then.
Somewhat related: I am starting a new job soon and I want to get Emacs setup "right" this time. I've been using Aquamacs for the last several years, but I'm wondering if there is a better way to use Emacs on the Mac these days? As part of this, I want to get my .emacs under version control and shared between computers so I have the same settings everywhere. Is there a good way to do that with Emacs packages installed…