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Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by int_19h »

aerique wrote: post #244
int_19h wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On Windows, some file managers are in this category. E.g. Far has been around for about 25 years now, and still has a cult-like following, especially in Eastern Europe / ex-USSR. ImageMagick is another one that has been around for almost 30 years, and is the Swiss army knife of batch image processing on any platform.

On file managers: Norton / Midnight Commander.

Well, you won't really see anybody using the original NC outside of DOS emulation. Midnight Commander and Far are spiritual successors, hence why I'm counting from mid-90s for them, not from mid-80s.

I suppose it could be seen as vi to Vim, though.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by 8456523 »

blackorzar wrote: post #260
8456523 wrote: post #107

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Emacs's Mac (graphical) interface does that, too, which is not conforming to the environment it is running in. And there is no user option for changing it to a contextual menu containing Cut, Copy, Paste, etc. (I changed it for myself by writing about 100 lines of Emacs Lisp.)

Would you please share your code? I would like to have a similar setup for my emacs in windows.

It's on a different computer than the one I am using now, so it is going to take me at least a few hours to share it. I will make another reply to your comment when I have it.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by 8456523 »

cjohansson wrote: post #247
logicchains wrote: post #197

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Another huge advantage: low resource use. I'm often running resource-hungry machine learning and dataprocessing jobs on my laptop (and Slack), and when ram usage gets high often VSCode or Jetbeans IDEs will just freeze up, often requiring a restart (especially C++ Intelllisense). I've switched to Emacs exclusively now for coding (C++, Python and Julia), and the productivity gains from having a rock-solid editor that…

Working a lot on battery powered laptops without any possibility of charging rules out Electron and Java based IDEs for me. Emacs works great for me.

My hope is that some enterprising developer will write an implementation of vscode's extensions API in Rust without the Chromium dependency and that that will lead to something with most of the functionality of vscode, but much less bloat.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by prirun »

I first used Emacs on a Prime minicomputer in the late 70's. It was ported to Prime by Dan Bricklan's Software Arts, Inc, of Visicalc fame. Still using it 41 years later.

For anyone curious, the Prime version of Emacs is running on a Prime emulator I set up. Telnet to em.prirun.org port 8002

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by mruts »

zelly wrote: post #143
bbbobbb wrote: post #48

I wish I spent time learning how to use Emacs in the past to a degree where customizing my installation was faster than learning something else. As I stand now, it seems really hard to justify to invest time into it when the benefits over using something very easy to work with (like JetBrains IDEs for Java or VS Code for Python) sound marginal. I know experts can fly around in it and it looks amazing. Having a single…

At this point honestly it's an objectively worse decision to not use modern IDEs. (It's not a matter of taste anymore.) IDEs have gotten really good. If you only use Emacs or vim, you're literally putting yourself at a competitive disadvantage. All the avante garde language extensions (Rust, D, etc.) support VS Code better than Emacs now. VS Code is where all the new ideas are tried first.

Could you give an example of how an IDE could make you much more productive than emacs?

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by mkl »

michaelmrose wrote: post #252
TeMPOraL wrote: post #249

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I concede the point. I'm not aware how one could embed a webview in Emacs buffer, and without this you won't get animated/interactive plots. My experience with Jupyter was limited to static plots so far (I did plenty of interactive work in ObservableHQ though), and Emacs can handle those well. Thanks for clearing that up for me!

Emacs can now actually embed a webkit view.

What would happen if you embedded say 100 of them in the same document? I think doing it the other way around, Emacs in webkit/browsers, is the only feasible way to do it. I'm sure someone has tried that, but it doesn't seem to be adopted yet.

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by creamidea »

Congratulations :)

When I installed the emacs on MacOS by the step at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#macos (`brew install emacs --with-cocoa`). I got an `Error: invalid options: --with-cocoa`

Finally, I found the solution here: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/47774/13172.

Now, I want to know who can modify this command at the official site.

PS: Homebrew 2.1.0 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 024e26; last commit 2019-04-13) Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 20182; last commit 2019-04-13)

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by JohnL4 »

Holy cow, the olds came out of the woodwork. Good to see, because I'm one, too. 57, been using emacs since 1982 or so.

Mostly org-mode these days, plus whatever weird hobby language thing I'm doing (Haskell, now).

Swapping control & caps lock is essential. I got really painful RSI pain in my first pinky joint before I did that. Sounds silly until it happens.

And my config file.... :-)

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by JohnL4 »

prirun wrote: post #264

I first used Emacs on a Prime minicomputer in the late 70's. It was ported to Prime by Dan Bricklan's Software Arts, Inc, of Visicalc fame. Still using it 41 years later. For anyone curious, the Prime version of Emacs is running on a Prime emulator I set up. Telnet to em.prirun.org port 8002

Me too! Except around 1982. :-)

Memories....

Re: Emacs 26.2 Released

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Post by roryokane »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #3

I'm really happy to see Emacs move faster, and especially the integration of package management since version 25. The old beast is still kicking! For what it's worth, I've actually been using on macOS the Mituharu branch [1], available in MacPorts as "emacs-mac-app". This version adds the [s]essential[/s] smooth-scrolling feature, and just in general seems to be slightly better integrated into macOS (except that it d…

To install that “emacs-mac” branch of Emacs with the Homebrew package manager, see the instructions on https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport. Homebrew’s built-in formula directory doesn’t include that version of Emacs, so that linked repo is a “tap” that defines a formula for it. From the README of that repo, these were the only commands I needed to run:

    brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport
    brew cask install emacs-mac
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