beacon
A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it! (by Malabarba)
gcmh
The Garbage Collector Magic Hack (by emacsmirror)
beacon | gcmh | |
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8 | 7 | |
646 | 105 | |
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0.0 | 0.0 | |
6 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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beacon
Posts with mentions or reviews of beacon.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-15.
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Emacs 29.1 Stuttery scrolling with (pixel-scroll-precision-mode)
Agreed. I've had success with beacon-mode for the same purpose. Making C-v and M-v scroll by half pages also helps.
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I use https://github.com/Malabarba/beacon
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What are some must-have packages for emacs?
beacon which-key auto-package-update dired-hacks helm
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I bet you use hl-line-mode... Do you know how it works? Overlays, post-command-hook and only 5 functions!!!
Malabarba/beacon: A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it!
- How can I animate cursor movement?
- Extremely fun............................ dum;best packages in emacs [comments appreciate :) ]
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I cant see where cursor is, after 5 minutes, i found it is in node_modules, . Is there any way to add some pointers , all emacs themes pointers are dull in treemacs
I use beacon-mode for this.
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Configuring emacs
I’d add that for 1) beacon is a good package. For 2), this may be an issue where you have multiple emacs configuration files. This is a serious problem. 3) be patient, and use the magic GC hack. To add to that, you should probably set the GC threshold to be high. 4) projectile? 5)emacs -nw.
gcmh
Posts with mentions or reviews of gcmh.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
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The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack
cf. https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh (the author's [=Andrea Corallo's] Emacs package "GCMH - the Garbage Collector Magic Hack")
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is it just me, or LSP mode is very slow in emacs?
A lot of people use way higher values than 800 KB without any problems. As a matter of fact, I've been using 256 MB for a very long time, haven't noticed any issues with it. So I wouldn't call 1 GB madness, it can be perfectly fine in some cases, especially if one uses gcmh, so it has a high chance that GCs will happen when the user doesn't interact with emacs (I also setup emacs to do GC when emacs loses focus. This means that GC pause is invisible most of the time for me). I strongly prefer very rare, short GC pauses than microstuttering all the time. Also, some operations apply a lot of pressure to the memory system, and do hundreds of GCs with the default setting, so most of the CPU time is spent in the GC when these operations run. Increasing gc-cons-threshold makes such operations much faster which means less pauses.
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Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
One possible solution is to switch to a LSP approach. You should also take a look at the garbage-collector-magic-hack package: https://github.com/emacsmirror/gcmh
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Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
If you experience some lag, my first advice would be to install the GCMH package. It basically changes the garbage-collection rules to ensure that most garbage collection will happen in small bouts while Emacs is idle. After installing it I've never had my Emacs lag on me. This wouldn't address the retina-display issues you mentioned, but I've never experienced those with emacs-plus.
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Will we be ever seeing multithreading in emacs?
I've seen gcmh recommended as a library that configures the garbage collector for you. Not sure if it is truly a "one size fits all" solution though.
- make emacs run 100% faster and snappier
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Configuring emacs
I’d add that for 1) beacon is a good package. For 2), this may be an issue where you have multiple emacs configuration files. This is a serious problem. 3) be patient, and use the magic GC hack. To add to that, you should probably set the GC threshold to be high. 4) projectile? 5)emacs -nw.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing beacon and gcmh you can also consider the following projects:
emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration
emacs-faff-theme - Emacs Faff Theme - a light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked.
dired-hacks - Collection of useful dired additions
lambda-emacs - Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.
emacs-scroll-on-jump
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
.emacs.d - My personal Emacs config with any quirks, oddities, bugs, and man-eating errors I live with on a daily basis.
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
emacs-which-key - Emacs package that displays available keybindings in popup
github-orgmode-tests - This is a test project where you can explore how github interprets Org-mode files
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs