lambda-emacs
Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions. (by Lambda-Emacs)
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The Garbage Collector Magic Hack (by emacsmirror)
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lambda-emacs
Posts with mentions or reviews of lambda-emacs.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.
- First Time Emacs User on macOS - Need Guidance!
- Chosing an Emacs Distro on M1 OS X
- Advice emacs as a word processor
- lambda-emacs: Emacs distribution with sane defaults, pre-configured packages, and useful functions.
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emacs distributions without evil?
You might look at crafted emacs and my own lambda-emacs (not sure if either of these are properly classified as "distros" though). Both default to vanilla Emacs bindings. The repo for lambda-emacs also has a bunch of links to some other great vanilla configs like Prelude, etc.
- Builtin eshell completion at po
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About to declare Emacs bankruptcy. Any advice for cool or new packages, defaults, or ideas I should use before I start building my init.el? Also interested in guides to using evil.
I am a professor in the humanities (philosophy) and I maintain a framework for Emacs (I don’t know if it rises to the level of “distro”) that is conducive to humanities work, including writing, notes, citations, a good ui, and basic programming. I’m happy to say more if you have any questions. https://github.com/Lambda-Emacs/lambda-emacs
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A minimal customization that I can borrow
See my lambda-emacs and lambda-themes. They are meant for writing and readability.
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emacs-groundup
7 - Meow: Meow is great. I switched from evil a few months ago and am pretty happy with it. I also dropped general.el for bind-key.el, which is included with use-package (which I see you are using anyway). You can look at my setup of meow here and a more generic setup of keybindings here. I haven't had any trouble with using this instead of general.
gcmh
Posts with mentions or reviews of gcmh.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-30.
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lambda-emacs and gcmh you can also consider the following projects:
mindre-theme - Minimal and light theme for Emacs
beacon - A light that follows your cursor around so you don't lose it!
svg-tag-mode - A minor mode for Emacs that replace keywords with nice SVG labels
emacs-faff-theme - Emacs Faff Theme - a light theme based on the Emacs default, extensively tweaked.
crafted-emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
dirvish - A polished Dired with batteries included.
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
corfu - :desert_island: corfu.el - COmpletion in Region FUnction
emacs-libvterm - Emacs libvterm integration
SLANOMACS - My (Illiterate) Literate Doom Emacs Config
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs