I couldn't install emacs on the lab pc without sudo. the solution was

The solution: ssh into a server with emacs installed and tramp back to the local machine. Can your vim do that?

One way to solve a problem for sure. Check mosh protocol for even better connection.

I bet you didn't expect that shit to happen

You can compile Emacs from source and set the target prefix to somewhere in your home directory. No root needed.

exactly, or even just take a compiled tarball and extract to a dir

This is what I would do. You can also use Emacs AppImage. https://github.com/probonopd/Emacs.AppImage

Jokes aside: yes. https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Editing_remote_files_via_scp_in_vim

God, I love tramp.

Careful with posting those global-scope public ipv6 addresses :) The addressreveals that you're probably in Debrecen,Hungary :)

Nix!

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Not mine

Couldn't compile without libraries, and it started to be too complicated from therw

I was looking for it, but I didn't find it

This right here. I do that with bleeding-edge emacs. Simple as.

just look for your distro, eg https://packages.debian.org/buster/emacs

Can't even ssh in the labs pc, so I was sneaky and installed nix, you can install it without root! , requires user namespace for non root users. What a bless was able to get my doom emacs setup in under 10min with my personal config, can also install other software in general as a perk.

Without root, installing in `/nix` won't work, and changing the installation location to the home directory will make Hydra binary caches useless (and will likely hit some obscure Nix bug, since it's a rarely-used code path). Good thought, though.

I'm on phone, but aren't there Deb packages? If so, probably I'd need sude for that to install

Yeah, it came to my mind after I already made this post. Good solution for dot files? Should I just eval it every time I open the holy editor?

And how can I tell tell to the build system where the compiled libraries are?

no you can just extract with `ar xv file.deb` and then untar the data.tar.xz. Probably there is a more debian way to do this as a user but the aforementioned will work.

True :( I've built up too much urge to brag about my editor of choice over too long time,

Ohh damn, I didn't know about that. I'd still have the library issue, no? Or all the dependencies are static?

you'd need the right libs too, which you can get by exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, use `ldd ./path/to/emacs|grep -i found` to see what it needs, most if not all may already be installed under /usr/lib

what's up with all these down votes?

Fasza, kedves hallgató! ;)

I run the following (basically): ./autogen.sh configure --prefix="$HOME/.local" # of course, wherever you like make bootstrap make install ## EDIT Oh, you're talking about like, dependencies. That I don't know. And of course, that's what makes it complicated. However, I figured my bit out with the README in the repo, so you probably can too. Looks like something like ./configure \ CPPFLAGS='-I/foo/myinclude' LDFLAGS='-L/bar/mylib' \ CFLAGS='-O3' LIBS='-lfoo -lbar' (this is straight from the INSTALL file.) Good luck!

I guess for not meeting GDPR requirements?

Iiiinteresting... I wouldn't have guessed. I live in Hong Kong for the past decade, so I'm a bit oblivious to the specifics of GDPR.

I was saying it tounge-in-cheek

well done. We also have a portable Emacs here: https://portacle.github.io/ It's tailored for Common Lisp (it ships SBCL and Quicklisp), but you get a full featured Emacs anyways (with Magit and a couple more packages, and git).

what's nix?