pdf-tools
Emacs support library for PDF files. (by politza)
emacs-builds
Self-contained Emacs.app builds for macOS, with native-compilation support. (by jimeh)
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| 32 | 26 | |
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| 0.0 | 7.2 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 16 hours ago | |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pdf-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.
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(re)build epdfinfo progam fails because poppler-private headers not found
Also https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/706
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Do all Emacs versions have blurry pdfs in pdf-tools on M1 Macbooks?
;; Fix blurry PDFs on MacOS. ;; From https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/51 (setq pdf-view-use-scaling t)
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Write research paper notes/summaries in emacs
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.
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What different before you were using emacs?
nov.el is pretty nice, although pdf-tools makes PDFs tolerable.
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pdf-tools got a new maintainer!
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. :)
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Okular – The Universal Document Viewer
I have been using emacs pdf-tools lately and really enjoying it https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
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PDF Note Style UI/UX in Remnote
View, annotate PDFs and more with Emac's pdf-tools. There is also the built-in doc-view.
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Cut and Paste from a PDF in Emacs
[pdf-tools](https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools) will let you do that.
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(global-linum-mode 1) causing issues with pdf viewing
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.
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Disable embedded code execution in pdfs?
doc-view.el aside, there's https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools which may have its own set of issues.
emacs-builds
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-builds.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-08.
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Thinking about buying a macbook, does Emacs work well?
[2] https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds (doesn't currently have > M1 builds)
- Building emacs via source on MacOS
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Installing emacs-29 on Mac M1?
I use https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds on nightly. It looks like they've added nightly 29 builds but haven't setup a corresponding brew cask.
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How to use Emacs 29 Tree-sitter?
I'm on mac and using these builds https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds and C-h v system-configuration-features outputs this
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Why is Doom Emacs So Slow?
Simplest way on macOS to get native compilation is my emacs-builds project. Emacs 28.x and later, including nightly builds all have native compilation, and are available as Homebrew casks.
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Emacs freebie: macOS emoji picker
Doesn't work for me on emacs-build, should it work out of the box?
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I am curious how many of you are using native compilation.
For my own purposes I maintain a build script and binary builds project, allowing me to install the latest nightly as a Homebrew cask.
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Why does Emacs have so poor integration on macOS?
Try https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds
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Inconsistent Space Width in Emacs-plus 28
There was even an issue reported on my own Emacs builds, but I could no longer re-produce it my variant of the issue at all, and the issue eventually went away for those who’d reported it.
- Release Emacs-28.1 · jimeh/emacs-builds · GitHub
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdf-tools and emacs-builds you can also consider the following projects:
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)
build-emacs-macos - Build script for emacs and macos
dot-doom - My Doom Emacs config files. Mirrored from https://gitlab.com/zzamboni/dot-doom
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
org-noter - Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
org-roam - Rudimentary Roam replica with Org-mode
homebrew-emacsmacport - Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager
build-emacs-for-macos - Somewhat hacky script to automate building of Emac.app on macOS.
Nightlies - Nightly builds for DuckieTV
helm-bibtex - Search and manage bibliographies in Emacs
pdf-tools vs HomeBrew
emacs-builds vs build-emacs-macos
pdf-tools vs dot-doom
emacs-builds vs GNU Emacs
pdf-tools vs org-noter
emacs-builds vs homebrew-emacs-plus
pdf-tools vs org-roam
emacs-builds vs homebrew-emacsmacport
pdf-tools vs build-emacs-for-macos
emacs-builds vs Nightlies
pdf-tools vs helm-bibtex
emacs-builds vs build-emacs-for-macos