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Re: Emacs Mac port
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Christopher W Carpenter |
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Re: Emacs Mac port |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Dec 2015 12:57:55 -0600 |
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Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> writes:
> On 12/29/2015 07:09 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Since adding feature to GNU Emacs that give more advantage to
>> non-free platforms might encourage the latter
>
> I don't think many people care whether they are using GNU Emacs or a fork
> thereof, so I'm not sure it would change much to the current situation
> (people on MacOS can use a version of Emacs that has more features than the
> ones available on GNU/Linux).
>
>> this seems to make a stronger case in favor of adding support for all
>> (?) of the features in question on GNU/Linux than doing anything
>> else, like merging Emacs Mac Port.
>
> Fully agreed; it seems clear to me that the priority is in getting more of
> these features in Emacs for GNU/Linux.
>
> I was just pointing out that as due to the current situation, I've had people
> point out to me that my Emacs experience would be nicer on MacOS than on
> GNU/Linux (and they are right: the best Emacs experience today is not on
> GNU/Linux). These people were not running GNU Emacs, but indeed that doesn't
> matter in terms of freedom (though it does matter in terms of using GNU Emacs
> to
> promote the GNU project).
FWIW emacs of Mac OS X (any of the versions I tried before just
installing debian on my macbook) have significantly degraded buffer
performance compared to Linux. I believe bugs were filed about it but
most of the core dev team don't have a mac to test on.
If you do any heavy buffer updating (like using emacs as a terminal
emulator) you can actually slow down the process creating the output.
So no, even from a practical sense you would not have a nicer experience
in MacOS IMHO.
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- Re: Emacs Mac port, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Dmitry Gutov, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Alex Dunn, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, CHENG Gao, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port,
Christopher W Carpenter <=
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, John Wiegley, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Christopher W Carpenter, 2015/12/29
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2015/12/30
- Re: Emacs Mac port, Richard Stallman, 2015/12/31
- Re: Emacs Mac port, David Kastrup, 2015/12/30