homebrew-emacsmacport VS solarized-emacs

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.

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).

I don't use macOS anymore, but the best port I found for speed was https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

There is the code to do just that. Works with emacs-mac and emacs-plus.

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.

Homebrew

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/).

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:

I can confirm that the name of theme is solarized-selenized-white which included in solarized-theme.

Solarized Light (with Noto Sans Mono)

There is no reason to watch videos, it will be self-explanatory when you use it; you can't miss it. Once you have three or more windows in Emacs it will show you a number, just press the number, and it will switch to the window. If you install a nice theme that has theming for ace-window, such Batsov's Solarized (or any of other derivatives), you will get nice theming for those numbers, so they stick out too.

The first one looks like a version of solarized. I think I have seen some other screenshots of him using something similar to Solarized dark, but I don't know for sure. At least I see Batsov's solarized forked on his account.. I don't know if he has done any changes, I think he did, since his color scheme does not look same as mine, and I use same theme unchanged from Batsov. Those other themes can be just different color schemes that comes together with Batsov's port of Solarized (zenburn, etc).

Everything feels quite well integrated to me. I also use Solarized by Batsov which minimizes the rainbow of colours that some packages introduce, notably. Most of the time I use two windows side by side in Emacs, so *-dwim commands can auto guess when I copy/move some file.

For the looks, if you don't like built-in themes, I suggest you some of Batsov's themes. I am using his Solarized port, and I recommend it because he has gone to great lengths to customize external packages, which can give you a more uniform look with third party packages out of the box. You don't need to use the solarized color scheme, there are other color schemes included there. It might help you with looks of tabs. I don't use tabs myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if he has taken care of tabs look too.

That's how a lot of themes work. Bozhidar Batsov's version of Solarized has a slightly different approach to file organization: