Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
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Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)
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#2I was planning on taking on porting Emacs to the iPad, given that it's a fantastically fast, light and low-power modern portable computer. But reading this gave me pause, I'm not sure I can dedicate as much time to this as it seems will be necessary...
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#3FWIW, I've used Emacs for a long time (i.e. long before this article was published) and don't recall it ever flickering.
Not to say it didn't, or that it wasn't a problem for the author, but he's exaggerating a bit when he says it flickered all the time.
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#4A total readable programmer horror story. Unusual such a good writer.
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The idea of an old architecture can still hack to work explain the genius of chinese in china. Living in a modern worl with all those new idea like democracy and free trade on the last 30 years or 200 years, you can still live and intermix whilst creating genetic modified baby and reedy are 1 million people in concentration camp at etc. I think Emacs could be a good model of understanding how old meet new, how one (worldview) beats the Multiverse we are in.
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Just need to sell emacs to African or Facebook to use the same old and successful model.
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#5FWIW, I've used Emacs for a long time (i.e. long before this article was published) and don't recall it ever flickering. Not to say it didn't, or that it wasn't a problem for the author, but he's exaggerating a bit when he says it flickered all the time.
He doesn't say it flickered all the time for everyone:
> The amount of flicker you actually see depends on things like whether redisplay optimized the last update, your video driver, and the purity of your soul.
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#6Don't you dare write about emacs on Facebook! ;) (At least it works without JS.)
Choice of platform aside, good article.
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#7I was planning on taking on porting Emacs to the iPad, given that it's a fantastically fast, light and low-power modern portable computer. But reading this gave me pause, I'm not sure I can dedicate as much time to this as it seems will be necessary...
If you’re willing to give up local editing, Blink.sh/mosh + tmux + emacs/emacsclient on a remote host has done the job for me.
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#8Last time this showed up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830206
And for anyone else using Emacs on a Mac:
1. I use the plain vanilla GNU Emacs from here: https://emacsformacosx.com/. It does flicker from time to time, but it doesn't bother me.
2. Some Mac users seem to prefer this: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS It's supposed to be flicker-free, among other things, but doesn't play well with MacOS native fullscreen (which I like), at least the last time I tried it.
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#9FWIW, I've used Emacs for a long time (i.e. long before this article was published) and don't recall it ever flickering. Not to say it didn't, or that it wasn't a problem for the author, but he's exaggerating a bit when he says it flickered all the time.
I've been using emacs last 15 years and I still do. Can't seem to remember any flickering... Just a data point.
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#10I was planning on taking on porting Emacs to the iPad, given that it's a fantastically fast, light and low-power modern portable computer. But reading this gave me pause, I'm not sure I can dedicate as much time to this as it seems will be necessary...
just use ish[1]. emacs mostly works on it now totally local to the iPad! If there are still things not working I'm sure a couple PRs would be a lot less work than your original plan.