popper VS solarized-emacs

popper: Summon, dismiss or cycle through "popup" buffers. Like drop-down terminals (guake, yakuake etc) but in Emacs and for any buffer, not just shells.

Karthink's config, good integration with the popper package

I love emacs, but agree with many of your criticisms.

Emacs can be slow. I don't use LSP, so can't comment on that, but it's definitely slow on long lines with syntax highlighting.

I don't use TRAMP for exactly one of the reasons you mentioned: it can hang Emacs. I want to avoid that at all costs, because I pretty much live in Emacs.

Handling buffers is tedious, but you can improve that through various packages, like popper[1]

Depending on what problems you run in to and your skill level, it could be tricky to debug elisp programs. However, compare that to when you run in to some bug in VSCode... how are you going to debug that? You'll probably have to submit a bug report and wait for the developers to get to it (if they ever do)... how is that better than emacs?

Also, remember that you don't have to go it alone in troubleshooting the issues you run in to with emacs. There's a whole community ready and willing to help.

Despite the downsides of emacs, I still use and love it. Every editor has downsides, and emacs is no exception. Its positives far, far outweigh the negatives for me. There's just so much more that it can do than other editors, and it's far more customizable. I very much doubt I'll ever seriously consider switching to another.

[1] - https://github.com/karthink/popper

Thanks for these tips! I'll explore tabspaces, apheleia, async-shell-command (and the Go lib) — all of those are new to me.

> Can you give a specific example of something you had trouble with?

I hoped to recreate multiple long-running terminal sessions in splits and tabs, similar to functionality I now use from:

Neovim (plugin): https://github.com/akinsho/toggleterm.nvim

VS Code (built-in): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/basics#_managing...

I just found “popper”, which didn't exist the last time I looked. It seems like a pretty close substitute:

https://github.com/karthink/popper

I find it pretty unintuitive how magit, vterm, rg, and other commands that want to open a new window will interact with a multi-window setup. Sometimes they'll use an existing window, sometimes they'll make a new one. I prefer having things be predictable: terminals always go here, search results go there, and so on. I was looking for ways to tame this, and I found purpose, popper, shackle, and of course, directly hacking on display-buffer-alist.

I use popper for buffers I only need to see briefly.

I haven't used popper but its description sounds promising: https://github.com/karthink/popper

Maybe this can help: https://github.com/karthink/popper

Consider Popper

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: