Which is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX?
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From: RPS on 9 Aug 2010 10:33 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.
From: Warren Oates on 9 Aug 2010 13:59 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 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. > 2) GUI version from an icon in the dock There's a few of these. Personally, for the Mac, I prefer TextEdit or Bean. or, even, gawdhepus, the plain-text mode in Word. Emacs is a terminal application, at least for me. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: RPS on 9 Aug 2010 14:23 > Personally, for the Mac, I prefer TextEdit or > Bean. or, even, gawdhepus, the plain-text mode in Word. Emacs is a > terminal application, at least for me. For consistency I like to work with one editor which for me is emacs; that way I develop good reliable habits. (If I receive a Word document and need to edit it, that's obviously a special case. I am talking about situations where I have a reasonable choice of editors.) Once I am inside of an emacs window, it doesn't matter to me how I got there. Commands like ^-v or e-> should work as usual. So what's the big deal between invoking from Terminal and dock? Mainly that I like my Terminal windows to be clean and spartan with most modern "enhanced features" turned off. Maybe it is just nostalgia - as reminiscent of old monochrome monitors and fixed fonts as possible. :) For a quick editing I would prefer that. OTOH a full GUI window will likely have lots of color support (codes in one color, TeX command in another, etc) and other features, which are useful for complex documents.
From: AV3 on 9 Aug 2010 16:03 On Aug/9/2010 10:3302 AM, 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 > > (2) GUI version from an icon in the dock > I haven't used it in years, but there was a GUI version called Carbon XEmacs. I notice in a cursory Google search that a supposedly helpful website is a year out of date. -- ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ ||Arnold VICTOR, New York City, i. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Arnoldo VIKTORO, Nov-jorkurbo, t. e., <arvimideQ(a)Wearthlink.net> || ||Remove capital letters from e-mail address for correct address/ || || Forigu majusklajn literojn el e-poŝta adreso por ĝusta adreso || ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++
From: BreadWithSpam on 9 Aug 2010 16:48
AV3 <arvimide(a)earthlink.net> writes: >> (1) Old fashioned non GUI emacs in Terminal You already have that. It comes standard on every Mac. Have you tried it? Is there something wrong with it? >> (2) GUI version from an icon in the dock > I haven't used it in years, but there was a GUI version called Carbon > XEmacs. I notice in a cursory Google search that a supposedly helpful > website is a year out of date. I've got a GUI version that's a couple of years old (okay, about 3 or 4 years) and it work fine, but I don't do much with it beyond just edit files sometimes. 9 times out of 10, I'll just open emacs in a terminal. There are a variety of OS X GUI variations of emacs, some stripped down to mainly just the editor, some with all the additional bells and whistles. You might try starting here to see what you like: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. |