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+layout: post
+title:  "Compiling emacs from source code on fedora"
+date:   2019-11-16
+tags: ['emacs', 'emacs27', 'linux', 'fedora']
+---
+
+Lately I have been using emacs quite heavily, I started using org mode after a friend insistently 
+telling me to try, got hooked and now I'm addicted on spacemacs+evil mode, very useful, I recommend it!
+I'm compiling emacs because emacs 27, which it is not available on fedora repos yet, has some serious start up 
+performance improvement which I more then welcome when using spacemacs.
+
+But enough talking lets down to the business.
+
+First install the following packages:
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+sudo dnf install git autoconf make gcc texinfo gnutls-devel giflib-devel ncurses-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel giflib-devel gtk3-devel libXpm-devel
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+Then we need to clone de source code from [savannah.gnu.org](http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/)
+{% highlight bash %}
+ git clone -b master git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+Navigate to emacs folder that we've just cloned and execute the following steps
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+./autogen.sh
+./configure
+make -j$(nproc)
+sudo make install
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+After that you will have emacs 27 or further running on your machine. To verify the version just run `emacs --version`.
+
+### Bonus content
+For maximum  awesomeness I would suggest using [spacemacs](https://www.spacemacs.org/), 
+tt has a lot of features out of the box. To install:
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d
+{% endhighlight %}
+
+