"Emacs has flickered for 30 years. Now, it should be flicker-free. I’ve just landed support for double-buffered rendering for the X11 port." (https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/) Anyone know whether that would apply to mac versions of emacs? I definitely have some flicker problems on my spacemacs.

@eggsyntax the HN thread had a link to this https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac where apparently he solved it for mac awhile ago

Cool, thanks.

lemme know if it’s better than what you’re using

i don’t notice any problems with my build, but could be ignorant

sometimes it freezes though, but not super often

I've been investigating further, and am fairly sure the problem I'm having isn't the same "flickering" he's talking about. I do already use emacs-mac, and I've been pretty happy with it, IIRC I did notice an uptick in performance.

i think i’m using a brew version from a long time ago

I suspect I have an installed package that's causing problems. The problem's intermittent, so I'm currently doing a painfully slow bisect on my dotfiles repo to try to figure out where it was introduced.

d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus

ah

^ That's the one you're using? I believe the spacemacs author used to recommend that one, but now recommends emacs-mac

yeah i haven’t updated it since i got my mac

using the latest spacemacs though

This comment from last June is at least one place where he seems to be recommending emacs-mac, unless I'm misreading it: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1114#issuecomment-111232491

Curious general question: How many of y’all came from dev using Cursive to Spacemacs, or how many of you have left Spacemacs for Cursive? I’m curious as to a comparison between the two. I love Spacemacs keybindings so much:) But a lot of people seem to be using Cursive for production builds.

i’d like to know this as well: especially for people who using cursive after spacemacs. Personally I don’t really see why I would use anything other than spacemacs after a few years with vim background. I don’t just code clojure, so having something that is useful for everything is better imo. I don’t feel like it’s lacking anything.

but I’m open minded and would like to see what cursive has that currently isn’t in spacemacs/cider

@eggsyntax the official repo https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs#macos still says to get what i have

i refuse to upgrade to sierra though 😛

don’t want no siri

and emojis

If I were doing mainly cljs development, I think I’d definitely take cursive for a spin. In my experience, certain combinations (eg boot + cider + wanting to have both clj and cljs repls in spacemacs) end up not working as well as I’d like.

what probs you have with clj + cljs?

they work fine for me with both repls spun up

@naomarik that link I posted says there’s a PR to update the README re: emacs-mac, but on the other hand that was June 2015...

clj + cljs worked like a charm for me in cider as long as I was using lein. After we switched to boot it kinda went downhill.

what you experience exactly?

for me i can eval forms just fine

and cljc files i have to explicitly set clojurescript mode for it to swtich to cljs repl

It’s been a while, but as I recall it was problems with a) spacemacs slowing way, way down after a while with repls into the project, and b) issues with spacemacs sending code evals to the wrong repl.

It’s also possible that it’s a problem specific to our codebase, but if so, no one’s yet been able to identify it.

i’m normally connected to frontend/backend in dev at same time and don’t notice either of those probs

the only issue is if emacs freezes i have to restart everything

cause it doesn’t leave the running repl in a state i can just reconnect to it

i also have a topend 2015 macbook pro 15 though so most things are fast...