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Very interesting thing you've got going there, and I love the visual aesthetic. Two quick tips that you probably already know, but just in case it's useful to y

by dilap 13y ago

Very interesting thing you've got going there, and I love the visual aesthetic. Two quick tips that you probably already know, but just in case it's useful to you or someone else: * Emacs can wrap lines at word boundaries, while intelligently preserving/extending indentation (something like this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8581161 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8581161) * If you're using emacs on the mac, it's worth taking a look at the railwaycat fork ("brew install emacs-mac"). Some improvements over vanilla emacs: Emoji (and other fun unicode) display works, fullscreen and maximize work better, scrolling with the trackpad works in a reasonable way.

abrowne 13y ago
I think you need to "brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport" first to install that.
- aaronem 13y ago
  I built it from scratch, only using Brew to install the necessary image format libraries, and that worked fine too.
terhechte 13y ago
Thanks for these tips, I'm already using the railwaycat fork, and it is really good. I compiled it myself though, didn't know that I can get it via brew now. That is fantastic, as I'm still on 24.3.1 :) Also, I didn't know about the wrap-while-keeping indentation, that's something I always wanted. Will try it out later. Thanks!
__david__ 13y ago
Also, note that Emacs 24.4 (currently unreleased) will have improved full screen support and better color support (same effect as "brew install emacs --srgb"). I've been using the Emacs head (from a month ago) and it's been very stable for me. For sane trackpad scrolling in vanilla Emacs I use this: '(mouse-wheel-scroll-amount (quote (0.01)))
aaronem 13y ago
Seconding the recommendation for the Railwaycat fork, which is excellent. I just wonder about how quickly it'll be integrated into the 24.4 codebase, once that version drops; I'm really looking forward to file change notification support, for example so that Emacs can autorevert my Dropbox-synchronized Org files when it sees that they've been synced.
_telemachus 13y ago
Thanks for the tip about railwaycat's fork. Note though that before you can run: brew install emacs-mac you first need to run this: brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport Otherwise, `brew` won't be aware of that version. (Whoops. Noticed just now that someone said this earlier as well. Since the comments are all spread out, I'm leaving mine in case it helps someone see the issue faster.)

by dilap 13y ago

abrowne 13y ago

I think you need to "brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport" first to install that.

aaronem 13y ago
I built it from scratch, only using Brew to install the necessary image format libraries, and that worked fine too.

terhechte 13y ago

Thanks for these tips, I'm already using the railwaycat fork, and it is really good. I compiled it myself though, didn't know that I can get it via brew now. That is fantastic, as I'm still on 24.3.1 :) Also, I didn't know about the wrap-while-keeping indentation, that's something I always wanted. Will try it out later. Thanks!

__david__ 13y ago

Also, note that Emacs 24.4 (currently unreleased) will have improved full screen support and better color support (same effect as "brew install emacs --srgb"). I've been using the Emacs head (from a month ago) and it's been very stable for me. For sane trackpad scrolling in vanilla Emacs I use this: '(mouse-wheel-scroll-amount (quote (0.01)))

aaronem 13y ago

Seconding the recommendation for the Railwaycat fork, which is excellent. I just wonder about how quickly it'll be integrated into the 24.4 codebase, once that version drops; I'm really looking forward to file change notification support, for example so that Emacs can autorevert my Dropbox-synchronized Org files when it sees that they've been synced.

_telemachus 13y ago

Thanks for the tip about railwaycat's fork. Note though that before you can run: brew install emacs-mac you first need to run this: brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport Otherwise, `brew` won't be aware of that version. (Whoops. Noticed just now that someone said this earlier as well. Since the comments are all spread out, I'm leaving mine in case it helps someone see the issue faster.)