emacs-builds
Self-contained Emacs.app builds for macOS, with native-compilation support. (by jimeh)
homebrew-emacsmacport
Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager (by railwaycat)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
emacs-builds
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-builds.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.
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Thinking about buying a macbook, does Emacs work well?
[2] https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds (doesn't currently have > M1 builds)
- Building emacs via source on MacOS
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Installing emacs-29 on Mac M1?
I use https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds on nightly. It looks like they've added nightly 29 builds but haven't setup a corresponding brew cask.
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How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter?
I'm on mac and using these builds https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds and C-h v system-configuration-features outputs this
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Why is Doom Emacs So Slow?
Simplest way on macOS to get native compilation is my emacs-builds project. Emacs 28.x and later, including nightly builds all have native compilation, and are available as Homebrew casks.
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Emacs freebie: macOS emoji picker
Doesn't work for me on emacs-build, should it work out of the box?
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I am curious how many of you are using native compilation.
For my own purposes I maintain a build script and binary builds project, allowing me to install the latest nightly as a Homebrew cask.
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Why does Emacs have so poor integration on macOS?
Try https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds
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Inconsistent Space Width in Emacs-plus 28
There was even an issue reported on my own Emacs builds, but I could no longer re-produce it my variant of the issue at all, and the issue eventually went away for those who’d reported it.
- Release Emacs-28.1 · jimeh/emacs-builds · GitHub
homebrew-emacsmacport
Posts with mentions or reviews of homebrew-emacsmacport.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.
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M-X Reloaded: The Second Golden Age of Emacs – (Think)
Run emacs -q (no add-ons loaded) and it should be a lot faster than VS Code. Which means that a library you loaded is the culprit. Things like Doom Emacs are notorious for unexpected slowness since they're not very well put together and load questionable libraries.
In the unlikely case where emacs -q is still slow, use Emacs Mac Port (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/releases...).
This is at least 2x perceivably faster than VS Code on Mac.
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indent-bars: fast, configurable indentation guide bars using font-lock and stipple patterns
Important note: I learned that apparently not all Emacsen properly support :stipple (despite happily accepting it as a face attribute). Linux/UNIX is safe, emacs-mac supports it on MacOS, but Windows may not at all (untested). Also, terminal emacs does not (to my knowledge) implement :stipple. Let me know how you fare. Update: Pure GTK emacs apparently does display stipples, but incorrectly (as an inverse mask).
- Thinking about buying a macbook, does Emacs work well?
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Way to make Emacs feel smoother?
I don't use macOS anymore, but the best port I found for speed was https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport
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Change the emacs theme to light/dark according to the system theme
There is the code to do just that. Works with emacs-mac and emacs-plus.
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C-<f4> not working out of emacs on mac
There's the "Mac" version, from Mitsuharu Yamamoto or railwaycat. The Mac port works more like Mac than the NextStep port. And it looks like the Mac port does work with C-f4.
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Introducing Captee alpha, looking for testers
Homebrew
- Newbie here! Need Help!
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any users of the Japanese input method? question about input-method.
You can install emacs-mac by homebrew (see https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport). $ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport $ brew install emacs-mac This emacs contains mac-win.el. Mac Auto ASCII mode in the mac-win.el automatically selects the most-recently-used ASCII-capable keyboard input source on some occasions: after prefix key (bound in the global keymap) press such as C-x and M-g, and at the start of minibuffer input. This function is very useful. I guess you can read Japanese, please visit Japanese setup page of my website (https://taipapamotohus.com/post/japanese\_setup/).
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[auto-dark-emacs] - An automatic theme changer for Emacs on macOS - UPDATED!
For what it's worth, the emacs-mac port provides a mac-effective-appearance-change-hook hook to do the same thing as the System appearance change plugin. I use it like this:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing emacs-builds and homebrew-emacsmacport you can also consider the following projects:
pdf-tools - Emacs support library for PDF files.
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
nix - Nix, the purely functional package manager
eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers
Nightlies - Nightly builds for DuckieTV
emacs-osx - Emacs on Mac OSX. Install with Nix
nixpkgs - Nix Packages collection & NixOS
emacs-builds vs pdf-tools
homebrew-emacsmacport vs homebrew-emacs-plus
emacs-builds vs build-emacs-macos
homebrew-emacsmacport vs build-emacs-for-macos
emacs-builds vs GNU Emacs
homebrew-emacsmacport vs nix
emacs-builds vs homebrew-emacs-plus
homebrew-emacsmacport vs eglot
emacs-builds vs Nightlies
homebrew-emacsmacport vs emacs-osx
emacs-builds vs build-emacs-for-macos
homebrew-emacsmacport vs nixpkgs