gcmh
uemacs
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gcmh
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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.
uemacs
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A nano like text editor built with pure C
Neat, I am a fan of minimalist text editors. There is also uEmacs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
- Linus UEmacs
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How many years have you been using Emacs?
maybe you're talking about the uEmacs Linus Torvalds still uses today? it's still maintained by him to fit his needs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
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Glory to Vim!
u/DellOptiplexFan Ironic, since the literal creator of Linux uses a fork of microemacs https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
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what terminal editor was intended to replace emacs in macOS with emacs bindings?
Torvalds's Emacs is nice. https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
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I just learned that new Macs don't come with Emacs preinstalled
Looks like he uses a thing called uEmacs.
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Setting up a fundraiser for multi-threaded Emacs, any thoughts on this?
Why don't you ask Linus? Or even better, read his motivation in his fork of microemacs (not GNU Emacs).
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Sunsetting Atom Text Editor
He doesn't. Linus uses MicroEMACS [0], which is an entirely different editor that uses emacs bindings.
It's not the lisp machine that incidentally happens to edit code that GNU Emacs is.
Or, as he puts it [1]:
> I use this abomination called "micro-emacs", which has absolutely nothing to do with GNU emacs except that some of the key bindings are similar.
[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
- Starting emacs without any Elisp and only the C-core?
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Linus thinks emacs is terrible
Then on the other hand he has his own fork of µEmacs: https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs
What are some alternatives?
beacon - A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it!
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
emacs-faff-theme - Emacs Faff Theme - a light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked.
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
lambda-emacs - Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.
chibicc - A small C compiler
Co-dfns - High-performance, Reliable, and Parallel APL
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
quickjs - Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.
emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration
nano-ycmd - Modded GNU Nano using ycmd code completion and IntelliSense. The ycmd code completion support for nano is found in the ymcd-code-completion branch.