pdf-tools VS build-emacs-for-macos

Also https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706

;; Fix blurry PDFs on MacOS. ;; From https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/51 (setq pdf-view-use-scaling t)

First things first, install pdf-tools, a great Emacs package for viewing pdfs. The default pdf viewer Docview is very limited so you should definitely get this package.

nov.el is pretty nice, although pdf-tools makes PDFs tolerable.

It looks enjoy pdf-tools got a new maintainer and he already changed the the melpa ⠀recipe, so you can get it via the package manager. I think this is a good development. My impression is, that he is new as an Emacs package maintainer, so please be kind and supportive, so he will stay on it for a while. :)

I have been using emacs pdf-tools lately and really enjoying it https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools

View, annotate PDFs and more with Emac's pdf-tools. There is also the built-in doc-view.

[pdf-tools](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) will let you do that.

I tried setting (add-hook 'pdf-view-mode-hook (lambda() (linum-mode -1))), which I found here. But it doesn't seem to do anything.

doc-view.el aside, there's https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools which may have its own set of issues.

I built emacs from source, native comp, a few months ago and recently heard about pgtk. Is this worth it (for more smoothness, better user experience) on MacOS? I saw this thread: https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos/issues/45 where it was mentioned that you have to turn off the MacOS specific flag, so I’m not sure if it’s more harm than good, and what benefit it may serve. Anyone have experience optimizing their emacs on MacOS as much as possible? I basically run native comp vanilla emacs with only about 100 lines in my init file, which I byte compile (I’m not sure if the init file byte compilation helps? It seems like even though packages get compiled down natively, going into the native code folder (alongside byte compilations) , init.el doesn’t have an option for it).

Details about the helper is in the readme here, and source for the helper is here.

I've been stuck on a build from February 23rd, I think, because all other builds since then have had some instability or funny quirks. Just built this today from source (thank you build-emacs-for-macos) and it's been solid so far!

Hi fellows, I am using this repo to build emacs on aarch64 mac. During the building, there are a lot of warning messages like:

I recognized your avatar. You're the one behind https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos . Nice project, I am using it to produce the macOS binary.

update: tried this build script and seems good

https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos

I've been using this: https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos

I use https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos which makes the custom build really easy.

Alternatively if you prefer to compile Emacs on your machine, there’s emacs-plus and my own build-emacs-for-macos which both have options to enable native compilation for 28.x and later builds.

I would recommend building from source like this for MacOS nowadays: https://github.com/jimeh/build-emacs-for-macos