• WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Lots of replies mentioning Emacs but Emacs out of the box is gonna be essentially a text editor (insert obligatory: Emacs isn’t a text editor; it’s a LISP interpreter).

    However, install Doom Emacs, and you have a full IDE experience for essentially any language you could ask for. I highly recommend it.

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        1 year ago

        Following up from my previous comment, there is a Flatpak of Emacs available on Flathub. Here are the instructions for how to install, whilst enabling native compilation, which will offer a performance increase and allow you to use features such as vterm (the best terminal emulator for Emacs).

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        I’m not too familiar with how Flatpak works but Emacs benefits from compiling it on your machine natively. Tell me what distro you’re on and I can see if I can find out how you’d do that.

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        A Flatpak of Doom Emacs? No. But you can just install the normal Emacs flatpak and then install Doom Emacs with 2 simple commands:

        git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs

        ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

        Emacs will read these config files from the .config/emacs directory. Doom Emacs is not a different version of the program, it’s essentially just a set of configuration files.

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          it’s not working for me? sorry to ask but could you try it? linux mint lts btw

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            I don’t have a Linux Mint installation right now, but when I used Mint a few months ago this worked for me. The two commands are from the official Doom Emacs install guide. Could you tell me exactly what doesn’t work?