26 is too old, I use emacs 29 master and didn't notice any issues for a while

I update it every 2-3 weeks

you should use 28.1 if don't want breaking changes all the time, it should be pretty fast enough

basically the main key features regarding performance is: • 27 introduced native json parsing, quite important for lsp users • 28 introduced native compilation which improves emacs speed overall

how do you update version 29? I should have kept notes on how i installed it.

I use NixOS so I use https://github.com/nix-community/emacs-overlay, you can use Nix too via MacOS

I second Eric's suggestion. I've been using Emacs 29 for a few months. My primary workstation is a Mac, installed it using brew formula emacs-plus@29. It is quite stable, except some minor things that were deprecated long ago, things like cl - they are getting slowly removed or modified, now without warnings. I think it's time, since many of them were obsolete since v24

Probably for mac users this is a more convenient install method ☝️

ill try using the snaps from https://snapcraft.io/emacs.

@U0DJ4T5U1 I use this on Ubuntu https://github.com/mpenet/emax/blob/master/install-emacs.sh

You just need to clone the emacs repo first

It should be easy to modify

Just remove pgtk if you are not using Wayland

I'm take a look, thanks a lot!!

I last used it a few weeks ago. I suppose it still works

just to confirm, it works with current master, I just recompiled: GNU Emacs 29.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-04-07

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ubuntu/ppa provides nightly builds of Emacs (which is given the version 29.0.50) Add the PPA and apt install emacs-snapshot Most nightly builds are pretty stable, so I tend to install it and not update (unless there are issues) Recommend removing the emacs and emacs-common packages and use the snapshot equivalents Snapshot package will point the emacs command to emacs-snapshot when installed

I'd only recommend the Emacs Snap package as a last resort, they take up a lot of space, install multiple copies and have several access constraints

It's really weird that the default (snaps) isn't stable or ideal. is it just transition pains?

that seems to have worked flawlessly btw john, ty again. ... Edit: i obviously meant "flawlessly" not lawlessness. Wow.

I've used the Ubuntu Emacs PPA when ever the Ubuntu release didnt have a version of Emacs I wanted. There have been a surprising number of Emacs releases since the last Ubuntu LTS version was released and it seems the packaging in Debian hasnt kept up. The latest intermediate Ubuntu release includes Emacs 27.1, as does the next Ubuntu release in a few weeks. Emacs 28.1 wasnt released soon enough to be included in the new LTS and so I expect Emacs 28.x to appear as part of the 22.10 Ubuntu release. So for now, I'm using a nightly build via the emacs-snapshot package, which seems to work very well with Spacemacs.

On Linux, I’ve been running Emacs 28 from source for about half a year. To update simply, git pull , make and sudo make install. I was surprised by how simple that was, and I appreciated avoiding the indirection and packaging. Finding the right branch to track was quite simple too. Emacs source: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/ Now that Emacs 28 is out, I guess getting prebuilt binaries should be easier.

Expand region is good, but there is also the builtin mark-sexp bound to C-M-SPC or C-M-@.

Ooh, that sounds faster! Cheers

Not lisp, but there is a Clojure project that converts Lein deps to Clojure CLI deps. It may provide some ideas https://github.com/hagmonk/depify

you are right I also wanted this for a while so here:

(defun lein-deps-to-deps (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char beg)
    (while (re-search-forward
	    "\\[\\(.+?\\)\\s-\"\\(.+?\\)\"\\]"
	    nil
	    t)
      (replace-match
       "\\1 {:mvn/version \\2}"))))

(defun lein-deps-to-deps (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (let ((end (save-excursion
	       (goto-char end)
	       (point-marker))))
    (save-excursion
      (goto-char beg)
      (while (re-search-forward
	      "\\[\\(.+?\\)\\s-\"\\(.+?\\)\"\\]"
	      end
	      t)
	(replace-match
	 "\\1 {:mvn/version \\2}")))))