homebrew-emacsmacport

Run 'emacs -q' (no add-ons loaded) and it should be a lot faster than VS Code. Which means that a library you loaded is the culprit. Things like Doom Emacs are notorious for unexpected slowness since they're not very well put together and load questionable libraries. In the unlikely case where emacs -q is still slow, use Emacs Mac Port (https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/releases...). This is at least 2x perceivably faster than VS Code on Mac.

How does that dist compare to https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport ?

I use Doom Emacs with the Yamamoto port of Emacs [1] on MacOS (M1) and the startup time is quite slow: it takes around 6-7 sec. for the editor window to show up. It doesn’t bother me too much since I usually start it once a day and just never close it, as you mentioned. However, I also have many plugins installed, so it might be just that. I wonder if it is possible to install a separate instance of Emacs, then I would be able to test the performance without all the plugins and configuration. [1]: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Wow, Eglot/Treesitter/better package support in 29 make me want to try Emacs again. > Install packages from source with package.el Emacs users updating to 29: do you plan to use this instead of Straight now? If not, can you help me to understand what more Straight provides? Emacs on macOS users: do you generally compile new versions of Emacs from source, or wait for ports like Mitsuharu Yamamoto's one[1] to update? [1] https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/, used by https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

>the license explicitly allows you to fork Emacs There already is a fork of Emacs for MacOS, which I and others on this site have been using for many years (me since 2010) because this isn't the first time the Emacs project has neglected or outright sabotaged Emacs on MacOS: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport One time (roughly 2012) FSF Emacs was in such a bad state that you couldn't interact with it at all: it would display as small, un-resizable window, but nothing I did would cause anything sensible to appear inside the window.

I'm successfully running Emacs natively on M1 using the Yamamoto fork. It just needs to be installed via the formula on Homebrew currently rather than the cask. https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/issues/2... Haven't run any benchmarks yet, but general usage is snappier and startup time is around twice as fast as a gccemacs build running on a 2020 Intel MBA.

I haven't had any issues using the "Mac port" of Emacs here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport I installed it with the x86_64 architecture. EDIT: Was more explicit in architecture nomenclature.

I use the “Emacs Mac Port” which is available via Homebrew. https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Railwaycat on github: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport A list of differences: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/f3402395995bf70... > Official repository: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview > This is "Mac port" addition to GNU Emacs 26. This provides a native GUI support for Mac OS X 10.6 - macOS 10.15. Note that Emacs 23 and later already contain the official GUI support via the NS (Cocoa) port. So if it is good enough for you, then you don't need to try this. > If you'd like to install with Homebrew, please $ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport and then $ brew install emacs-mac if you using cask brew cask install emacs-mac or brew cask install emacs-mac-spacemacs-icon To disable this tap, please: $ brew untap railwaycat/emacsmacport

To install that “emacs-mac” branch of Emacs with the Homebrew package manager, see the instructions on https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport. Homebrew’s built-in formula directory doesn’t include that version of Emacs, so that linked repo is a “tap” that defines a formula for it. From the README of that repo, these were the only commands I needed to run: brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport brew cask install emacs-mac

On Mac I use the emacs-mac port by Mitsuharu Yamamoto: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview which, in my opinion, works well. It can also be installed via brew (from source) or brew cask: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

I use this version too and have been very pleased with it. It's also available via Homebrew [1]. As an aside, I'm looking forward to better support for text scaling in future [2,3] as it's a feature that (if it was compatible with autocomplete and company-mode) fits my workflow better than zoom-frm. [1]: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport [2]: https://github.com/company-mode/company-mode/issues/299 [3]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18493

This kind of thing is exactly why I will always support and use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's macOS Emacs port (https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac), which has been consistently rock solid and committed to implementing nice to haves on macOS that this sort of political bullshit holds back on official development. Homebrew tap here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

`brew install emacs-mac` alone didn't work for me. Solution here: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport

Are you using OS X / mac OS? If so, have you tried Mitsuharu Yamamoto's Emacs Mac Port? Available as Homebrew tap: https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport