emax64 VS GNU Emacs

I'm using a version that was compiled for windows. Specifically, this: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases I've not noticed any problems with it! I'm not a power user though. I've only been using emacs for a few years (since 2018).

I use Emax64 BTW. No WSL.

> On Windows my config doesn’t work at all. I have no idea why. I didn’t have the energy to debug it.

I'm a Linux person, but need Windows for work. I've used Emacs on Windows for over a decade now, and with the exception of magit, everything works just as fine as on my Linux machine. In fact, I have the same config for both, with only a few lines dealing with Linux vs Windows specifics.

So it may be worth debugging your config.

I use emax64, BTW: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64

Try epdfinfo.exe from https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases . Let me know if you need help setting it up.

[1] https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases

I wonder how Emax would fare vs standard Windows Emacs: https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64

Me? For years I've been using Emax64 and things just work. I can see why some people may want msys2/mingw, etc, but many/most will not really benefit from it. What was your use case where plain Emax64 wouldn't work?

I am testing rho-emacs, but for now I'm happier with emax, since it facilitates integration with MSYS2. Just try for yourself and decide.

gnu.org - contains everything you need to research his philosophy.

stallman.org - personal website, contains a lot of opinion, but I absolutely respect this man in all what he says.

emacs.org (redirects to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - his non-philosophical work, one of two mainstream console text editors.

Forever, there was a file included in stock Emacs, `spook.el`, which could be hooked up to automatically add random strings of "interesting" keywords to each of your email or Usenet messages (in signatures, or in headers like `X-Spook`).

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

Looks like copyright date of 1988:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook....

Try `M-x spook RET` in an Emacs buffer.

If you want to spare a couple of detours, you probably could start with Emacs Org-mode according to Greenspun's eleventh rule: "Any sufficiently complicated PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."

Emacs: winget install GNU.Emacs

The whole cl-lib thing is a total disaster:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs...

They added cl- as a prefix to each Common Lisp symbol.

FIRST is now called cl-first, CAAAR is now cl-caaar .

I would really prefer if GNU Emacs removes all Common Lisp functionality, instead of creating this really wacky stuff, with discussions about this topic every year.

Never too late to try! Take your time. Emacs will outlive us all. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

GNU Emacs is a versatile, open-source text editor that offers extensibility and customization—a sort of self-documenting real-time display editor. Our thanks for the suggestion go to CartanAnnullator.

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Their DEFUN and DEFVAR macros for example let us define a function or a variable that will be available as a Lisp function, and can be used as an ordinary C function from the C code. Emacs is written in pure C99 language and works with both GCC and Clang I believe. We can just define a C function via macro, and it is auto exported and made available to Lisp. For example my first patch to Emacs was for this function (we added "count" argument to make it possible to skip enumerating files in a directory for the case when user code is just interesting if a directory is empty or not):