Talk:Emacs

Mention emacs-lucid in section "As a daemon"

It might be worth mentioning emacs-lucid^AUR in the section on running emacs as a daemon, due to the following bug that Emacs warns about when started in daemon mode:

Warning: due to a long standing Gtk+ bug

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/221

Emacs might crash when run in daemon mode and the X11 connection is unexpectedly lost.

Using an Emacs configured with --with-x-toolkit=lucid does not have this problem.

In particular, when connecting to the emacs daemon from multiple X sessions (e.g. via VNC or multiple tty's), the default (GTK) version of emacs will crash when an X session is closed. The lucid version of emacs does not suffer this issue.

Snackattack (talk) 16:09, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

Installation

Add emacs-nativecomp and emacs-wayland

Aw come on, emacs-nativecomp and emacs-wayland are official packages I probably didn't know existed until I searched for them randomly. These should be added to the main page (and only these two). This is because native compilation is very interesting for multiple reasons, such as performance improvements; and emacs doesn't support Wayland by default, whereas emacs-wayland does with PGTK support. Note that these packages are equivalent those listed in Emacs#Forks:

• emacs-pgtk-native-comp-git^AUR
• emacs-native-comp-git^AUR
• emacs-native-comp-git-enhanced^AUR

I think these are very relevant, not forks with very specific changes: these packages have great changes.

So they should be added. Maybe take out some others in the way.

Ezkha (talk) 17:46, 3 September 2023 (UTC)