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Very rough notes on compiling on Debian w/Tree-sitter

• https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-get-started-tree-sitter

Problem with native compilation on Debian/Ubuntu?

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2023-03/msg00076.html
• https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/z640in/emacs_28_doesnt_seem_to_be_doing_native/
• Make bootstrap appears to have worked? However, looks like it didn’t include treesit – no function treesit-available-p
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Native-Compilation.html
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Native-Compilation.html
• Compilation:

./configure --without-compress-install \
            --with-native-compilation \
            --with-json \
            --prefix /home/hugh/.local/ \
            --no-create \
            --no-recursion \
            --with-pgtk \
            --with-xml2 \
            --with-tree-sitter

• That compile worked after adding a few more packages. Wow, was bootstrap the solution?
• Add tree-sitter
  • Had to export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • After that, had to add to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf & run ldconfig

Run-or-raise

• Windowclass not being caught correctly – keeps being set to just “emacs”
  • https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/60168/how-can-i-set-wm-class-for-emacs-27
  • Used the solution there:
  • Script in my_emacs.sh in ~/bin:

    #!/bin/bash
    
    # emacs.sh:
    # call as ./emacs.sh [<file1>] [...]
    
    flock "/run/lock/emacs-wmclassfix-$USER" bash -s "$@" <<'EOF' 
    {
            emacsclient --no-wait --create-frame "$@" ||
            exec emacs --name MyEmacs -f server-start "$@"
    } &
    EOF
            

  • Run-or-raise looks for MyEmacs
  • Emacs desktop shortcut now called MyEmacs, and invokes ~/bin/my_emacs.sh
  • Seems to work

Eglot not working for python scripts – no problem starting up, but does not find definitions

• Aha, need to install pylsp globally
• Debian testing:

  apt-get install '^python3-pylsp[a-z-]*$’