Oh, didn't know that, indeed, that even much better than emacs-lucid!

That said, the question still stands to have an full-fledged Emacs /
EXWM without GTK.

> BTW, here [1] you can find a patch to change the byte-compiler on-the-fly.
>
> [1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/41732#7

This is a great idea!  Emacs package are fast enough to compile after all.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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