What does HackerNews think of homebrew-emacs-plus?
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The install section is out of date, at least for macos homebrew. The emacs-plus package on homebrew (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) is the best for macos.
Have you tried emacs-plus[1]? That's what I've been using for years now on macOS and never ran into issues. Opening big files is a different topic though I believe it doesn't work much better on Linux too.
There are taps that build GUI Emacs via homebrew, that's what I use. In particular, I use this one: https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
It's fantastic! If you are on a mac you can try it right now with emacs-plus[1]. Emacs plus even works natively with apple m1. Doom[2] with CIDER[3] is such an incredible dev experience and I've only recently started using clojure. Native comp makea everything so snappy.
[1]https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
Spacemacs[1] is a particularly nifty solution to the emacs defaults being... special. There are other bespoke config systems out there, but it really impresses me. The maintainers take performance and, more importantly to me, interface consistency and discoverability seriously. It supports both Vi style bindings as well as the traditional Emacs ones. Combined with a distribution like Emacs Plus[2] with the --with-native-comp it's a very nice way to interact with the system.
Best is subjective, but my current go-to is:
```
$ brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus
$ brew install emacs-plus [options]
```
I agree that the Mitsuharu version of emacs is pretty great on the Mac, but the lack[0] of multi-tty[1] support is a deal breaker for me. I like emacs-plus[2], which while not quite as nice as the railwaycat/mitsuharu version, allows me to run text frames and GUI frames on the same server process.
[0]: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/pull-requests/2/add...