What does emacs-plus have that emacs doesn't? #385
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Hi! I decided to install emacs-plus@28 to see if it fixes the horrible flickering vanilla emacs has on Mac (both my machines have the exact same problem). It looks great, but I don't see anything extra compared to emacs (which is good!). Just wanted to know if that's correct, or if there's some packages that are installed extra? Thanks! |
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In my understanding, emacs-plus is simply the vanilla emacs with some small patches (and icons!). You can check the directory https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus/tree/master/patches/emacs-28, which contains the available patches on emacs-28. All of them are exposed by the options in the README file. |
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Yes, you are right 😸 It's just a homebrew formula for GNU Emacs with some minor patches (some of them are optional) and several optional icons. How does it differ from 'official' homebrew How does it differ from Emacs for Mac |
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Ok, great to know! It looks good and that's exactly what I was looking for, though the toolbar moving into the title bar looks a bit weird (not a problem as I normally use emacs fullscreen so I don't normally see that). BTW it does fix the MacOS flickering (more like a full screen "refresh") that makes emacs 27.x totally unusable on Mac. |
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Great! Glad to hear.
Ah, this was so annoying... it took quite a while to fix that, but folks working on GNU Emacs did a great job and now we can enjoy Emacs 😄 |
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I went through the "News" on the 28 release, it's insane how much stuff they've done (the GNU Emacs maintainers)! Seriously good work. |
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In my understanding, emacs-plus is simply the vanilla emacs with some small patches (and icons!). You can check the directory https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus/tree/master/patches/emacs-28, which contains the available patches on emacs-28. All of them are exposed by the options in the README file.