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by shakow 326 days ago
Just out of curiosity, what issue did you encounter? I have a quite customized emacs, and the only lag I really notice between Linux and macOS is in magit, where operations are noticeably slower.

> What will my next editor be?

Fancy giving a shot to Helix[0]? Not even is it pretty good out of the box, it has a scheme extension language in the work.

[0] https://helix-editor.com/
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xlii 326 days ago
Believe it or not but I tried to use Helix when my Emacs build was completely broken.

It couldn't handle the Git repo of Emacs' size. Every keystroke took 3 seconds to process.

I found it somewhat funny. But otherwise Helix is still a great editor worth recommending.

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algo_lover 326 days ago
helix looks cool and the scheme PR open with STEEL looks quite at home for me. I'll check it out, Thanks!

There is a plugin I can't live without: aggressive-indent, and it is awfully slow for me. I don't use any emacs distributions like doom, everything is hand rolled yet my keystrokes are noticeably slower than any other place.

Sometimes random operations like projectile get slow down, sometimes I'm stuck hitting c-g multiple times, it keeps popping up every now and then.

I need to restart emacs once every week because things tend to get slow by then.

And yes, magit is the slowest of them all. I've spent weeks trying to debug and fix magit but it's so slow for me. I am a magit power user despite all the jank, because it really gives me superpower.

Emacs has made me a much better developer, both because of repl driven development, and by making me grok how much power you can wield when you can mold an editor to your needs.

Switching from emacs to something else will be a long and arduous journey for me, but I can't live with the jank anymore as I get frustrated by it almost every day.

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shakow 326 days ago
Ah I see, I personally only use electric-mode + [insert language]-format on save, so that's much lighter.

And I restart mine every 2-3 days, so it doesn't have that much time to get slowed down.

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andxor 326 days ago
Have you tried installing the latest version of git via homebrew? I found it to be noticeably faster.
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