Which is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX?
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From: George N. White III on 9 Aug 2010 18:21 On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, RPS wrote: > What is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX? Ideally, I would like to > have a setup in which I can select between these choices- > > (1) Old fashioned non GUI emacs in Terminal If the version that Apple provides is too old, macports provides a recent version. > (2) GUI version from an icon in the dock Aquamacs
From: Harald Hanche-Olsen on 10 Aug 2010 16:01 + Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com>: > In article <090820100933025461%rps(a)null.void>, RPS <rps(a)null.void> > wrote: > >> (1) Old fashioned non GUI emacs in Terminal > > Download and build your own. Works fine here. > > <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs> > > Latest version is 23.2 it seems. You can build it as a native Mac application: ../configure --with-ns make make install after which you find Emacs.app in the nextstep subdirectory. > You used to be able to get development releases from Savannah, but > they seem to have choked that off. I love emacs, but the cult > surrounding it is a bit nutty. The development source is currently kept available in a bazaar repository. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BzrForEmacsDevs -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell
From: Xah Lee on 10 Aug 2010 16:22 On Aug 9, 7:33 am, RPS <r...(a)null.void> wrote: > What is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX? Ideally, I would like to > have a setup in which I can select between these choices- > > (1) Old fashioned non GUI emacs in Terminal > > (2) GUI version from an icon in the dock > > Thanks. i wrote about this i think answers your question. ⢠Which Emacs to Download for Windows and Mac? http://xahlee.org/emacs/which_emacs.html Xah â http://xahlee.org/ â
From: Geico Caveman on 11 Aug 2010 12:54
On 2010-08-09 09:33:02 -0500, RPS <rps(a)null.void> said: > What is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX? Ideally, I would like to > have a setup in which I can select between these choices- > > (1) Old fashioned non GUI emacs in Terminal > > (2) GUI version from an icon in the dock > > Thanks. The two main ports are Carbon Emacs and Aquamacs. I have used the latter. It worked fairly well, and added mac keystrokes to the existing emacs set. I have no experience with Carbon Emacs. Try and see. |