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With my \nMigrating to Linux: On Guiding Principles and Keyboard Bindings<\/a><\/cite> complete, I moved on to getting tool of my computering: Emacs.<\/p>\n

I think my Emacs<\/a><\/span> 📖<\/a><\/small>\n configuration requires at least version 29.1; however I\u2019m\nuncertain. The package manager had Emacs<\/span>\n 27 available, so I opted to build from\nsource.<\/p>\n

I could either download a released version\u2019s source code or clone the\nrepository. I chose the clone route; as this would be useful as upgrades come\nout.<\/p>\n

Preliminaries:<\/p>\n

sudo apt update && sudo apt install git --assume-yes\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
With git<\/code> installed I need a copy of the Emacs<\/span>\n repository, and should build from\na stable ref; as of <2025-04-23 Wed> <\/span><\/span> that is emacs-30.1<\/code>.\n  (<\/span>Sidenote:<\/span><\/span>\n   I had a copy of the Emacs<\/span>\ngit repository on another machine.  So I used the\nsneaker net (e.g. a thumbdrive) to copy that over to the Linux<\/a><\/span> \ud83d\udcd6<\/a><\/small>\nmachine and then\nrun git pull<\/code> so I could get up to date source code.)<\/span><\/span>\n<\/small>\n<\/p>\n
I used Installing Emacs 29.1 from source on Debian 12 \u00b7 GitHub<\/a> as my framing.<\/p>\n
First, building the dependencies:<\/p>\n
sudo apt build-dep emacs\nsudo apt install libtree-sitter-dev libgcc-12-dev libgccjit-12-dev\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Then making a home for my new install:<\/p>\n
mkdir -p ~\/.local\/emacs\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
In my source directory for Emacs (e.g., ~\/git\/emacs\/<\/code>), I ran the following:<\/p>\n
.\/configure \\\n--prefix="$HOME\/.local\/emacs\/" \\\n--without-compress-install \\\n--with-native-compilation=aot \\\n--with-x \\\n--with-x-toolkit=lucid \\\n--with-gif \\\n--with-png \\\n--with-jpeg \\\n--with-tiff \\\n--with-imagemagick \\\n--with-mailutils \\\n--with-tree-sitter \\\nCC=gcc-12\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
It took a few tries, which is why I have the CC=gcc-12<\/code> declaration as well as\ninstructions for installing libgcc-12-dev<\/code> and libgccjit-12-dev<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Now came time to spin up the fans.  I ran make -j 16<\/code>; where 16 is the number of\ncores on my machine.  And finally make install<\/code>.<\/p>\n
Along the way, I realized that there were terminal commands that I was missing.\nBut I could hobble along.<\/p>\n
Up until I had Emacs<\/span>\n built, I was using nano<\/code> to write my notes.  It is quite\nserviceable.<\/p>\n
Note<\/em>, I could have installed Emacs 30.1 via the Pop Shop, however I chose to\nbuild from source.<\/p>\n
Toggling Gnome Settings<\/h2>\n
There are a few settings that I have found useful to toggle:<\/p>\n