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Re: Emacs 26.3

#11

Post by krylon »

ohithereyou wrote: post #9
longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs). I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

> how slow magit is on Windows

I am relieved, though, that it's not just me.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#13

Post by s_c_r »

longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on the desktop though, I understood. Input latency in emacs is less than in gnome terminal for me. Never thought I would say that emacs feel snappier than vim, but that seems to be the case in my current setup. Also, I recently discovered magit and now I don't hate using git anymore.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#14

Post by nightchalk16 »

ohithereyou wrote: post #9
longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs). I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

You can give WSL2 a try. It has speed improvements.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#15

Post by jumbopapa »

longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

I can't stand Emacs on Windows. Even trying to keep a simple TODO list in org-mode is painfully slow for me. I was explaining to a co-worker how amazing emacs and when I showed him all he saw was a lag ridden mess. I use it at home on my Linux desktop mostly with some python development and ledger-mode and it's amazing.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#16

Post by martincmartin »

s_c_r wrote: post #13
longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on the desktop though, I understood. Input latency in emacs is less than in gnome terminal for me. Never thought I would say that emacs feel snappier than vim, but that seems to be the case in my current setup. Also, I recently discovered magit and now I don't hat…

Emacs performance in general (not just Windows) has been a complaint forever. Back when Emacs was first launched, and machine memory was measured in megabytes, people joked it stood for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.

Re: Emacs 26.3

#17

Post by rhabarba »

martincmartin wrote: post #16
s_c_r wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a long time Windows users, I could not understand why anyone would love emacs. It's slow on Windows and locked up often for me. When I switched to Linux on the desktop though, I understood. Input latency in emacs is less than in gnome terminal for me. Never thought I would say that emacs feel snappier than vim, but that seems to be the case in my current setup. Also, I recently discovered magit and now I don't hat…

Emacs performance in general (not just Windows) has been a complaint forever. Back when Emacs was first launched, and machine memory was measured in megabytes, people joked it stood for Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.

Still waiting for Guile Emacs to solve that.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by dragonsh »

Great job a very good example of programmable editor.

Emacs had been my work horse since 2002 and never disappointed. In the meantime tried many ide only vim and emacs stayed with me. Sometimes do use nano and sublime text but then back to either emacs or vi.

All those shiny IDE based on electron, Java or C++ are just too slow to be productive be it VScode, atom or eclipse or visual studio or kdevelop. I am forced to use them due to tooling support for some framework. But I avoid them as much as possible once I have configured emacs to work with the language or sdk or framework or library in question.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by goatinaboat »

ohithereyou wrote: post #9
longtom wrote: post #5

Any improvements for the Windows GUI ? I find it to work better with WSL and VcXsrv.

The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs). I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in a Linux VM to get acceptable performance.

I use Emacs in Debian on WSL with X410 and it’s fine, no perceptible lag.

Git is definitely slower in Windows

Re: Emacs 26.3

#20

Post by [deleted] »

declank wrote: post #12

The improved js-mode in 27.x is definitely worth checking out, especially if you use React/JSX. Had many issues wrestling with indentation in previous setup. https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/blob/master/README.md#react...

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