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Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by rhabarba »

fluffything wrote: post #25
nickysielicki wrote: post #24

I'm sick of managing 5-6 different installs of language server protocol servers. A couple are installed with my package manager (clangd), some are installed with pip (pyls), some I just have symlinked into ~/.local/bin (microsoft/python-language-server). It's overly difficult to get right. If anyone is aware of a better way, especially for emacs users, I'd appreciate it. Is this something where docker or snapd might…

I just use spacemacs and it handles that for me.

Spacemacs is disturbingly slow.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by sambe »

anyfoo wrote: post #23
abdullahkhalids wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This page is being rendered as DejaVu Sans Mono on my Debian Firefox. This font apparently does not have the Form Feed character [1], so I am getting a bunch of nonrendered characters, once before every * heading (but not before ). Incidentally, my emacs font face is also the same, so I am also getting a bunch of ^L in emacs C-h n. [1] https://unicode-table.com/en/000C/

Is Form Feed ever a character that a font renders? It’s whitespace, after all. And (hard to be certain on the phone) this “website” is likely just a text file. Maybe Firefox just does not like form feed in general. That emacs displays form feeds as the Control character ^L (which it is) is also normal, and if you just curled the file confirms that it’s just a plain old text file.

I use the page-break-lines package to show these a bit more nicely (IMO).

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by jcranberry »

fluffything wrote: post #25
nickysielicki wrote: post #24

I'm sick of managing 5-6 different installs of language server protocol servers. A couple are installed with my package manager (clangd), some are installed with pip (pyls), some I just have symlinked into ~/.local/bin (microsoft/python-language-server). It's overly difficult to get right. If anyone is aware of a better way, especially for emacs users, I'd appreciate it. Is this something where docker or snapd might…

I just use spacemacs and it handles that for me.

Spacemacs abstracts the client side away but you still have to manage the servers yourself.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by sambe »

gnufied wrote: post #7
rhabarba wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So ... only two relevant changes this time?

for many of us this fixes a show stopper bug while downloading packages from MELPA/ELPA. I was just trying to setup on a new Fedora box (emacs-26.2) and my setup kept failing on "Failed to download archive...".

Which change fixes that?

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by kjar »

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.

Hehe insane, you get better performance in a virtualized environment! I understand why that could be but virtualization overhead exceeding native performance is bonkers.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by rhabarba »

dragonsh wrote: post #18

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…

The most flexible programmable editor is probably Acme though.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by rhabarba »

sambe wrote: post #34
gnufied wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for many of us this fixes a show stopper bug while downloading packages from MELPA/ELPA. I was just trying to setup on a new Fedora box (emacs-26.2) and my setup kept failing on "Failed to download archive...".

Which change fixes that?

The new certificate mentioned in the announcement, probably.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by JasonFruit »

roryrjb wrote: post #28

I recently tried to seriously use Emacs over my usual Vim. Mainly because I've got so used to the GNU readline emacs shortcuts in the terminal and quite like the idea of not having to switch between command and insert mode, but damn after looking into some configuration options it really is a massively complicated piece of software, I mean not to start using it, it's probably easier than Vim but just looking at all t…

You probably shouldn't switch. I'm an emacs guy myself, but from what I can see, the advantages of vim are equal but different. If you are skilled with vim, there's probably no good reason to switch at this point. We could have a good argument about what you should have started with, but I'll pass.

Re: Emacs 26.3

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Post by varjag »

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.

Today gedit has twice memory footprint of a tricked out Emacs, however.
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