# emacs-application-framework **Repository Path**: flyfox2021/emacs-application-framework ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: emacs-application-framework - **Description**: EAF，新一代的Emacs图形应用框架，扩展Emacs的多线程和图形渲染能力，实现Live In Emacs的理想 - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: GPL-3.0 - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/ - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 11 - **Created**: 2022-02-15 - **Last Updated**: 2022-02-15 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README English | [简体中文](./README.zh-CN.md)


A free/libre and open-source extensible framework that revolutionizes the graphical capabilities of Emacs,
the key to ultimately Live in Emacs

## Vision Emacs, the extensible *text editor*, is more than 45 years old. It is older than virtually all operating systems people use today, almost as old as the first UNIX system. During the decades of development, the world's brightest hackers have contributed their intelligence and creativity, together they've constructed the most comprehensive and richest ecosystem that you can find in any software to date. If you are a hacker who works with numerous languages and text, who's keyboard-driven and desires maximum freedom, extensibility, and introspectivity over your tool, maybe to the extent of *living* in it, Emacs will be your best bet. Unfortunately, this 45 years of age is also one of the greatest disadvantages of Emacs. Comparing with modern software, Emacs lacks performance, specifically Emacs Lisp lacks performance, it doesn't have proper multithreading and its graphical capabilities are seriously limited. It is far from what you'd expect on every GUI application today (such as IDEA or VSCode). You may think that Emacs, as a text-centric editor, doesn't need them, but have you ever run into a situation that, you sit comfortably typing commands and doing your Emacs sorcery, but can't stop to ponder: What if Emacs has a real browser? What if this PDF or video file can be viewed efficiently without leaving Emacs? Emacs, although infinitely extensible in text, is very limited in graphics. It shouldn't have to be this way. However, Emacs Lisp is *the* integral part of the Emacs culture, it carries decades of history with itself, it is what makes Emacs special. It is irreplaceable. The vision of the Emacs Application Framework (EAF) project is that, while fully retaining the rich history, culture and ecosystem of Emacs and Emacs Lisp, to open up completely new doors to the ecosystems of Python, Qt5, and even JavaScript. EAF extends Emacs to the world of modern graphics, but still preserving the extensibility and customizability of Emacs, it will be the key to ultimately *Live in Emacs*. ## Features EAF is very extensible, it already comes with a number of useful applications by default: | Browser | PDF Viewer | | :--------: | :----: | | | | | Music Player | File Manager | | :--------: | :----: | | | | | | | | Extend Emacs with EAF | Emacs Application Framework: A 2021 Update | | :--------: | :----: | | [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK_f8KTuR0s) | [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh37zbefZk4) | | | | - [Browser](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-browser): Full-featured browser - [PDF Viewer](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-pdf-viewer): The fastest PDF reader - [Terminal](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-terminal): Full-featured terminal - [Video Player](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-video-player): Video player base on Qt - [Markdown Previewer](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-markdown-previewer): Markdown file previewer in Emacs - [Org Previewer](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-org-previewer): Org file previewer in Emacs - [Music Player](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-music-player): Music player, support playlist and an audio visualization - [RSS Reader](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-rss-reader): RSS reader, rendering html content in expected - [File Manager](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-file-manager): File manager, support file real-time preview - [Mindmap](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-mindmap): Mindmap with full-featured keyboard operation - [Jupyter](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-jupyter): Jupyter in Emacs - [Image Viewer](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-image-viewer): Picture viewer, supporting real-time zoom rotation - [Camera](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-camera): Use camera in Emacs - [System Monitor](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-system-monitor): System monitor base on Vue.js - [Netease Cloud Music](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-netease-cloud-music): EAF frontend for NetEase cloud music - [File Browser](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-file-browser): Browse file in mobile phone - [File Sender](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-file-sender): Share file between Emacs and mobile phone - [Airshare](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-airshare): Share text between Emacs and mobile phone - [Demo](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-demo): EAF Application demo base on Qt - [Vue Demo](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/eaf-vue-demo): EAF Application demo base on Vue.js ## Install EAF supports Linux (X11 and Wayland), Windows, macOS and FreeBSD, the installation method is very simple. #### 1. Download EAF ```Bash git clone --depth=1 -b master https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework.git ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-application-framework/ ``` #### 2. Install/Update EAF applications and dependencies You can use `M-x eaf-install-and-update` or manually run the `install-eaf.py` script in the EAF directory: ```Bash cd emacs-application-framework chmod +x ./install-eaf.py ./install-eaf.py ``` There are many useful flags available for `install-eaf.py`, check it yourself using `--help`. #### 3. Load EAF Core From here on, you can either add the full path to the EAF installation directory to your Emacs ```load-path```, then add the following to `init.el`: ```Elisp (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-application-framework/") (require 'eaf) ``` - Alternatively, if you use [use-package](https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package), you can use the following *sample* configuration for your convenience. ```Elisp (use-package eaf :load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-application-framework" :custom ; See https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/wiki/Customization (eaf-browser-continue-where-left-off t) (eaf-browser-enable-adblocker t) (browse-url-browser-function 'eaf-open-browser) :config (defalias 'browse-web #'eaf-open-browser) (eaf-bind-key scroll_up "C-n" eaf-pdf-viewer-keybinding) (eaf-bind-key scroll_down "C-p" eaf-pdf-viewer-keybinding) (eaf-bind-key take_photo "p" eaf-camera-keybinding) (eaf-bind-key nil "M-q" eaf-browser-keybinding)) ;; unbind, see more in the Wiki ``` #### 4. Load EAF Apps You can use below code to load applications `browser` and `pdf-viewer` that you installed, please check [Applications](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework#applications) for the full list: ```Elisp (require 'eaf-browser) (require 'eaf-pdf-viewer) ... ``` #### 5. Hooray! Congratulations, you just installed EAF! You can try `M-x eaf-open-demo` (that is if you have `demo` installed, of course) to see if everything works properly, and enjoy the new possibilities of Emacs. Below are launch commands of EAF Applications: | Application Name | Launch | | :-------- | :---- | | Browser | `M-x eaf-open-browser` Search or Goto URL | | | `M-x eaf-open-browser-with-history` Search or Goto URL or Goto History | | HTML Email Renderer | `M-x eaf-open-mail-as-html` in `gnus`, `mu4e`, `notmuch` HTMl Mail | | PDF Viewer | `M-x eaf-open` PDF File | | Video Player | `M-x eaf-open` Video File | | Image Viewer | `M-x eaf-open` Image File | | Markdown Previewer | `M-x eaf-open` Markdown File | | Org Previewer | `M-x eaf-open` Org File | | Camera | `M-x eaf-open-camera` | | Terminal | `M-x eaf-open-terminal` | | File Manager | `M-x eaf-open-in-file-manager` | | File Sender | `M-x eaf-file-sender-qrcode` or `eaf-file-sender-qrcode-in-dired` | | File Browser | `M-x eaf-file-browser-qrcode` | | Airshare | `M-x eaf-open-airshare` | | Mindmap | `M-x eaf-create-mindmap` or `M-x eaf-open-mindmap` | | MS Office Viewer | `M-x eaf-open-office` | | Jupyter | `M-x eaf-open-jupyter` | | Music Player | `M-x eaf-open-music-player` | | System Monitor | `M-x eaf-open-system-monitor` | | Demo | `M-x eaf-open-demo` to verify basic functionality | | Vue Demo | `M-x eaf-open-vue-demo` to verify vue.js functionality | - EAF Browser and PDF Viewer support Emacs built-in bookmark operation, with `M-x bookmark-set` (defaulted to `C-x r m`) and `M-x bookmark-bmenu-list` (defaulted to `C-x r l`). ## Upgrade Also, you should regularly `git pull` **and** run `install-eaf.py` (`M-x eaf-install-and-update`) to update EAF, its applications, and relating dependencies. ## Report bug ### For any installation and configuration assistance, please read the [Wiki](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/wiki) and [FAQ](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/wiki/FAQ). If you encounter a problem with EAF, and it occurred after pulling the latest commit, please check the [Mandatory Procedures to Keep Your EAF Up-To-Date](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/discussions/527?sort=new) page **first**. For any other problems, please use `emacs -q` and load a minimal setup with only EAF to verify that the bug is reproducible. If `emacs -q` works fine, probably something is wrong with your Emacs config. If the problem persists, please report it [here](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/issues/new) with `*eaf*` buffer content, it contains many clues that can help us locate the problem faster. If you get a segfault error, please use the following way to collect crash information: 1. Install gdb and turn on option `(setq eaf-enable-debug t)` 2. Use the command `eaf-stop-process` to stop the current process 3. Restart eaf, send issue with `*eaf*` buffer content when next crash ## EAF in the community A list of other community packages that use EAF to enhance their graphical experiences! If we missed your package, please make a PR to add it to the list. * ***[obr-viz](https://github.com/swhalemwo/obr-viz)***: visualizing [org-brain](https://github.com/Kungsgeten/org-brain) relationships using EAF * ***[netease-cloud-music](https://github.com/SpringHan/netease-cloud-music.el)***: A netease music client for emacs. ## Contributor ## Join Us Do you want to make Emacs a real "operating system"? Do you want to live in Emacs more comfortably? Do you want to revolutionize the capabilities of Emacs? [Let's hack together!](https://github.com/emacs-eaf/emacs-application-framework/wiki/Hacking)