org-msg VS eglot

Compare org-msg vs eglot and see what are their differences.

org-msg

OrgMsg is a GNU/Emacs global minor mode mixing up Org mode and Message mode to compose and reply to emails in a Outlook HTML friendly style. (by jeremy-compostella)

eglot

A client for Language Server Protocol servers (by joaotavora)
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org-msg eglot
7 66
272 2,172
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3.8 3.4
16 days ago about 1 month ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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org-msg

Posts with mentions or reviews of org-msg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-06.
  • Gnus email client tips
    1 project | /r/emacs | 26 Apr 2023
    There is also org-msg as another option (haven't tried both so can't compare).
  • [doom-emacs] How to put the signature above the citation in mu4e?
    1 project | /r/DoomEmacs | 26 Aug 2022
    org-msg replaces a lot of message composition behavior, so it's not a big surprise that it doesn't respect that variable. Make sure you're referencing org-msg's README while customizing it.
  • What’s New in Emacs 28.1?
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Apr 2022
    Funny, just dealt with the whole O365 authentication just this week. With moving to 2 factor authentication you need to use OAuth 2 to do anything with it. I have my (work) O365 email forwarded, so I do have normal IMAP access. I use isync/mbsync [1] to receive email, goimapnotify [2] to get pushed new email, read/reply/etc with mu4e [3] and org-msg [4] and org-mode, and until recently just plain SMTP to send mail. This last part will break with 2 factor, but found oauth2ms [5] to set up the OAuth to work with O365 SMTP. The trick was to find the "tenet ID" from the Azure page of your organization and to use Thunderbird's credentials [6] (or another mail program, since I can't make new app registrations on Azure to have my own "application"). That should also allow you to use IMAP with OAuth 2 as well, but haven't done that since I still have the forwarding. (As usual, I think the Arch Wiki [7] covers most of this too.)

    [1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/

    [2] https://gitlab.com/shackra/goimapnotify

    [3] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

    [4] https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg

    [5] https://github.com/harishkrupo/oauth2ms

    [6] https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/tip/mailnews/base/s...

    [7] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Isync#Using_XOAUTH2

  • use-package :bind won't work for org-msg. What's going on?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 31 Aug 2021
    I'm using org-msg like this (great package btw, doesn't get enough attention if you ask me):
  • [ANN] New package: mu4e-column-faces
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Aug 2021
  • Enhance Your Email With Org Mode
    1 project | /r/emacs | 26 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg/issues/1#issuecomment-426415584 is one of the things which pushed me towards org-msg.
  • org-msg: Compose and reply to emails in a Outlook HTML friendly style.
    1 project | /r/planetemacs | 5 Jan 2021

eglot

Posts with mentions or reviews of eglot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • LSP could have been better
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    Recently I stumbled upon this issue:

    https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/1127

    I don't know enough about emacs and LSP to see the full picture, but it seems that both eglot's and corfu's maintainers, assumably very competent programmers, can't find a solution for this.

    I only skimmed the thread. My understanding is that LSP dumps a long list of completion candidates at once and they can't decide a cache strategy that works well with existing code...?

  • Spurious errors with Eglot / pylsp
    1 project | /r/emacs | 10 Jul 2023
    It could be. There are unfixed issues with eglot and corfu, and sadly not a lot of willingness to investigate.
  • Using Quarto with Emacs
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 9 Jun 2023
    Eglot errors when I add new Python code blocks. The error disappears when I reconnect the language server, but the same happens again when I add a new code block. My "workaround" now is that before I start working on the .qmd file, I just add a bunch of Python code blocks (for which I also have a function) and then reconnect the language server again. This way I can start working for a while until I need to add more code blocks again.
  • Looking for help in improving Typescript Eglot, Corfu, Orderless performance
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 8 Jun 2023
    This discussion has helped with some performance issues: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/993.
  • Typescript highlighting in emacs incomplete (compared to VSCode) even after using treesitter?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 3 Jun 2023
    I guess eglot doesn't support it yet: https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/pull/839
  • joaotavora/breadcrumb: Emacs headerline indication of where you are in a large project
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 12 May 2023
    This is not by pure chance, João is the developer of the Eglot LSP client and the breadcrumbs from LSP-mode had been requested as a feature, but as far as I remember João thought rightfully that this could be an independent package, see https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/988
  • Returning emacs user - what packages are common now?
    9 projects | /r/emacs | 9 May 2023
    A substantial section of the community is using corfu instead of company, but I wouldn't say company is out of date by any means. In emacs 29 eglot will be a built in, which might act as a replacement for lsp-mode depending on what functionality you need.
  • Eglot upgrade strategy
    1 project | /r/emacs | 6 May 2023
    I am currently running emacs 29 (built from emacs-29 branch) which – according to https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot – should contain the latest eglot.
  • 916 Days of Emacs
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023
    Yep. You can use flymake or flycheck for that in combination with eglot or lsp-mode.

    See https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot#diagnostics

  • Eglot, eldoc and golang
    1 project | /r/emacs | 12 Apr 2023
    (I have reported this (that is, ElDoc missing docs for callable things at point, when Eglot is enabled) as an issue recently: First on GitHub-discussions https://github.com/joaotavora/eglot/discussions/1200, then on Debbugs https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=62687. But the threads are very long, so I don't recommend reading them.)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing org-msg and eglot you can also consider the following projects:

mu4e-column-faces

lsp-mode - Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol

notdeft - NotDeft note manager for Emacs

dap-mode - Emacs :heart: Debug Adapter Protocol

weblorg - Static Site Generator for Emacs

clangd - clangd language server

elfeed-org - Configure the Elfeed RSS reader with an Orgmode file

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

preview-org-html-mode - Emacs minor mode for an (optionally) live preview of Org exports to HTML using Xwidgets.

web-mode - web template editing mode for emacs

emacs-fsharp-mode - F# Emacs mode

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs