emacs-from-scratch VS vlfi

Compare emacs-from-scratch vs vlfi and see what are their differences.

emacs-from-scratch

An example of a fully custom Emacs configuration developed live on YouTube! (by daviwil)

vlfi

View Large Files in Emacs (by m00natic)
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emacs-from-scratch

Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-from-scratch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.

vlfi

Posts with mentions or reviews of vlfi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-13.
  • Text Editor Data Structures
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2023
    That is essentially what VLF[1] does in Emacs. It reads in discrete chunks of the file at a time and doesn’t load the next one till you try to display it. Doesn’t require any fancy data structures, just some extra book keeping and mechanics.

    [1] https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi

  • Can't learn emacs, can't use anything else (rant)
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 3 Sep 2022
    That is an issue both related to Emacs' internal representation of buffers and modes working in the background on the data in buffers of very large files, for which there are some workarounds like vlf-mode. See for example (info "(emacs) Long Lines") for similar issues with long lines and a solution more similar to what all those other editors you mention are doing to mitigate the issue of large files and large lines.
  • Commercial-Emacs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2022
    You can edit gigabyte-large files with no trouble vlf.el https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi – though it's a bit of a separate universe, you have to use vlf-occur instead of occur to find matches over all gigabytes of the file

    ;; To have it offered when opening large files:

  • so-long mode slow
    1 project | /r/emacs | 9 Mar 2022
    For arbitrarily large files (think GB) in terms of size of the data stored you may use e.g. vlfi.
  • How to speed up opening of large files in Doom Emacs?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 1 Feb 2022
    You can use vlf package to open large files
  • Using Emacs in an IDE World
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2021
    You know how "there's an app for that" used to be a thing? Well, there's an elisp package for that: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
  • What do you miss the most from your previous editor/IDE after you moved to Emacs?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Aug 2021
    Theres always: https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi
  • Tips for Avoiding Hangups
    1 project | /r/emacs | 25 Mar 2021
    I’m aware of a few potential solutions including: dired-async and async-shell-command. There’s also https://github.com/m00natic/vlfi for viewing large files, but I don’t know how to address GPG pinentry and TRAMP issues very well.
  • Got rid of every other text editor on my Mac
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Mar 2021
    I think you might enjoy this mode: vlfi. It is available in the standard Elpa package listing.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing emacs-from-scratch and vlfi you can also consider the following projects:

prelude - Prelude is an enhanced Emacs 25.1+ distribution that should make your experience with Emacs both more pleasant and more powerful.

emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration

doom-emacs - My Doom Emacs configuration

good-scroll.el - Attempt at good pixel-based smooth scrolling in Emacs

doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]

commercial-emacs - "Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." -- Spaceballs (1987)

disable-mouse - Disable the mouse in Emacs

helm-ag - The silver searcher with helm interface

esup - ESUP - Emacs Start Up Profiler

iscroll - Smooth scrolling over images in Emacs

edwina - Dynamic window manager for Emacs – GitHub mirror

orderless - Emacs completion style that matches multiple regexps in any order