Emacs

[snunez1]

Nice project. Have you considered adding emacs to the list of tools/projects?

[trunkmaster]

Thank, you. I don't quite understand what do you mean by "adding emacs". Could you plase explain what exactly you expect?

[alexmyczko]

Maybe Emacs.app? http://aiei.ch/emacs.png

[snunez1]

An emacs app is what I was referring to. Trying to compile emacs under GNUstep hasn't worked for a long time as far as I am aware. It would make a nice addition to the toolkit.

[trunkmaster]

@snunez1 It would be nice to have Emacs.app for everyday usage but... I've tried current version from master. It is running but almost unusable - randomly crashes, scrollbars buggy, font settings doesn't applied from ~/.emacs, menu flickers on almost any action. It seems GNUstep support needs huge amount of work to make Emacs.app useful. I'd like to have time to do that work, but I don't right now. Any volunteers?

[snunez1]

It sounds like you have got farther than I. Yesterday I wasn't even able to get it to compile. I've reported it to the GNUstep maintainers. Perhaps we can mark this one as an enhancement or nice-to-have and return to it as time permits.

[enzuru]

Hey all, I'm an Emacs user and I occasionally submit patches to the Emacs project. I was able to get the latest Emacs.app to compile against the latest NEXTSPACE but it involved a couple minor patches of the code and CentOS 7.

It seems quite stable, but I'll report back if that proves otherwise. I am noticing the font problem, but everything else seems fine.

I'm going to work on getting the patch submitted upstream to Emacs first. After I have gotten it merged, I'll write a blog article on how to compile Emacs.app on NEXTSPACE.

And after that, I'm going to prepare two Ansible playbooks. One will convert a minimal CentOS 7 instance into a NEXTSPACE workstation. The second will convert a minimal CentOS7 instance into a NEXTSPACE developer workstation with the latest version and source of NEXTSPACE as well as a brand new Emacs.app.

Emacs.app is probably our best bet for writing serious Objective-C code.

[snunez1]

Fantastic! Please update this issue when the 'blog comes out so we can follow along...

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:05 PM Ahmed Khanzada ***@***.***> wrote: Hey all, I'm an Emacs user and I occasionally submit patches to the Emacs project. I was able to get the latest Emacs.app to compile against the latest NEXTSPACE but it involved a couple minor patches of the code and CentOS 7. It seems quite stable, but I'll report back if that proves otherwise. I am noticing the font problem, but everything else seems fine. I'm going to work on getting the patch submitted upstream to Emacs first. After I have gotten it merged, I'll write a blog article on how to compile Emacs.app on NEXTSPACE. And after that, I'm going to prepare two Ansible playbooks. One will convert a minimal CentOS 7 instance into a NEXTSPACE workstation. The second will convert a minimal CentOS7 instance into a NEXTSPACE *developer* workstation with the latest version and source of NEXTSPACE as well as a brand new Emacs.app. Emacs.app is probably our best bet for writing serious Objective-C code. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#246 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB3KJ4BSEHHAN5JZSBZSWJ3RM7WSRANCNFSM4LWH5A2Q> .

[trunkmaster]

@enzuru Please build Emacs.app against master branch (now we have up-to-date build instructions in .circleci/config.yml, thank you).
It would be great if you create emacs fork so I could create a pull requests. I had numerous issues with my build of Emacs.app (and some ideas too).

[enzuru]

@nextspace I've successfully built the latest Emacs.app against the latest nextspace GNUstep branches. While I do notice crashing (usually when I am closing Emacs, meaning it is not costing me much) and some font issues, Emacs.app is largely usable.

Some Objective-C code was refactored recently in Emacs which caused the latest to break. I just submitted a patch to the emacs-devel mailing list. As soon as the code is merged, I'll write that blog.

Afterwards, we can setup an Emacs branch on GitHub for further improvement.

[trunkmaster]

@enzuru I'm using emacs for development too. Also org-mode is very good. I dream about full-featured Emacs.app, actually. Looking for your emacs fork/branch.

[enzuru]

Blog post here: https://medium.com/@enzuru/compiling-emacs-app-on-nextspace-centos-7-12e0be45f502

Next project is making the NEXTSTEP Ansible scripts for end users.

[trunkmaster]

@enzuru You've mentioned NEXTSTEP several times through your blog post. Is it intentional or just typos?

[enzuru]

@trunkmaster a bit tired and groggy... that was a mistake. Will fix.

[trunkmaster]

@enzuru no problem. It's a proof of correct name I've choosen. ;)

BTW, you don't need to patch CentOS to overcome __unused and __block - it can be #ifdef'ed like my in patch to libdispatch. Look here as an example.