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Emacs has one flaw for me under WSL: the janky Windows console doesn't pass C-SPC. Meaning I have to bind set-mark-command to something else (like M-SPC), or download and use wsltty (fork of mintty).

But other than that Emacs is fine, and a lot of Linux stuff (Node, mongo, etc.) works great.

Who cares if Urbit doesn't work? :)

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For the record, we fixed C-Spc in emacs on the more recent builds :)

To be clear, I use one of the GUI versions of emacs for windows. C-spc works fine there.

I'd like to play with Urbit - Yarvin and his goals are interesting enough that I'm willing to spend a few hours playing around.

Would you mind elaborating on what emacs in particular you're using? I use and love emacs but unfortunately the times I've tried to use it on windows it's been extremely unresponsive.

Have you tried this one?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/

It's worked for me fairly well.

Indeed that's the one that I used. For some reason, even just moving the cursor around the buffer was extremely unresponsive, it would take seconds for it to register a cursor movement. I'll have to figure out if it's some package I'm using.

The "official" one:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows

Woah I tried it again and it seems like it's working perfectly! It seems like the initial release for windows wasn't compiled with optimizations, so perhaps that's the issue I was observing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/598iot/on_windows_em...

What do you use for colors/theme in emacs in WSL? I ran emacs with the default settings the other day and there was a lot of unreadable blue on black.

Once the latest build filters out to Windows Update, I will probably only invoke the Windows build of emacsclientw, but it would be nice to have something habitable in WSL on occasion.

I set TERM=vt100 and run it in stunning mono.

Nice :-)

That's much easier on the eyes. org-mode folding doesn't seem to like it, but it should be no problem sticking to Windows Emacs for that.

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