Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit

Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by ashton314 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:25AM (#37388177)

I own no windows machines but afaik it should run OK on windows. Emacs is a pretty good application platform that glosses over lots of OS inconsistencies. :)

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by raincole on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:40AM (#37388237)

I heard that some addons (like magit) run much worse on Windows than on Unix-like. That's my main concern. Maybe it's an outdated view tho.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by dan-robertson on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @02:49AM (#37388657)

The big issue here is that spawning processes is (was?) much slower on windows. There’s also wsl2 where I think Emacs will work fine.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by ljm on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:47AM (#37390078)

I run it inside windows terminal on WSL2 and it's smooth as butter. Despite losing out on some GUI-specific features I think I prefer it.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by lost_tourist on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:52AM (#37390109)

Still is but it works pretty well under wsl.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by User912983 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:17AM (#37389570)

From what I remember magit is only slow on WSL, when interacting with a repository that is not located in the Linux subsystem i.e. laying in the windows user directory. But that might be wrong or also depend on other factors.

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Re:Emacs Bedrock–A minimal Emacs starter kit by louistsi on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:37AM (#37390366)

Magit worked perfectly fine when I was using Emacs on Windows, but nowadays I run it with gWSL on the only windows machine I own.

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