Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
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Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
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Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#2Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading.
A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be unrealistic.
Has anyone successfully packaged it for NixOS? I see this aborted attempt here: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/250777 (linked from https://github.com/lem-project/lem/issues/890). If not, I guess I might just try patching the binaries rather than trying to build it from scratch, since I don't have any experience building common lisp projects in nix.
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#3Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading. A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be…
Emacs is pretty snappy these days, what kind of performance problems are you seeing with it?
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#4Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading. A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be…
> A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be unrealistic.
Yeah while completely unrealistic some way to make interfacing with emacs packages would be nice.
There seems to be a magit like interface in the works: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/oh-no-i-started-a-magit-...
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#5Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading. A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be…
Emacs is pretty snappy these days, what kind of performance problems are you seeing with it?
I use emacs every day, with a minimal config, and would never describe it as snappy. The entire thing is single threaded so the UI locks up at the slightest provocation, like for example when firing network requests whilst packages are updating.
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#6Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading. A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be…
>Has anyone used this?
I have, it's awesome. There are some rough edges and some niceties/third party packages from emacs that I missed, so I ended up going back, but lem is very promising.
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emacs is pretty snappy these days, what kind of performance problems are you seeing with it?
I use emacs every day, with a minimal config, and would never describe it as snappy. The entire thing is single threaded so the UI locks up at the slightest provocation, like for example when firing network requests whilst packages are updating.
Emacs can run external processes asynchronously. It is true that Emacs locks up while updating packages but it is actually not while downloading or unpacking them! It locks up while byte-compiling them. :)
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#8Has anyone used this? I was just thinking the other day that it would be nice to have an emacs-like editor written in such a way that it made performance and parallelism easier, especially around multithreading. A real killer feature would be some kind of emacs-lisp compatibility layer so that you could load existing third-party emacs modules, but I imagine the complexity of that is so off the charts that it would be…
Emacs is pretty snappy these days, what kind of performance problems are you seeing with it?
I use spacemacs and have problems with the editor locking up when some extension does some a lot of work.
There's also a strange bug (at least I think it's a bug and not a feature that I don't know how to use) where the cursor will still exists and clicking will move it around, but the window doesn't respond to keyboard inputs.
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#9nice but no org mode yet...
Re: Lem: Emacs-like editor written in Common Lisp
#10I've used this, you can tell it's still in development but it feels great