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Which is the best port of Gnu Emacs to Mac OSX?
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RPS
2010-08-09 14:33:02 UTC
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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.
AV3
2010-08-09 20:03:35 UTC
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Post by RPS
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website is a year out of date.
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2010-08-09 20:48:01 UTC
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Post by AV3
Post by RPS
(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?
Post by AV3
Post by RPS
(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website is a year out of date.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
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Xah Lee
2010-08-10 20:22:13 UTC
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Post by RPS
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
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Geico Caveman
2010-08-11 16:54:40 UTC
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Post by RPS
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.
Timo Geusch
2010-08-14 15:02:07 UTC
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Post by RPS
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
That one already comes with Mac OSX
Post by RPS
(2) GUI version from an icon in the dock
I've used both Carbon Emacs (actually I'm typing this in Carbon Emacs)
and Aquamacs. Both work pretty well, Aquamacs is more Mac-like whereas
Carbon Emacs is more Emacsish (if that makes sense?).
Richard Kettlewell
2010-08-14 15:30:17 UTC
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Post by Timo Geusch
Post by RPS
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
That one already comes with Mac OSX
Post by RPS
(2) GUI version from an icon in the dock
I've used both Carbon Emacs (actually I'm typing this in Carbon Emacs)
and Aquamacs. Both work pretty well, Aquamacs is more Mac-like whereas
Carbon Emacs is more Emacsish (if that makes sense?).
I found Aquamacs unlike either 'real' Emacs or Mac applications; in
particular I found that bits of text constantly got deleted by accident.
Emacs.app (built from the standard Emacs sources) trips me up much less.
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Doug Anderson
2010-08-14 21:21:22 UTC
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Post by RPS
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 found carbon emacs as packaged here:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html

to be enough like emacs under Unix and X11 so that I've been quite
happy with it.
國父
2010-08-17 17:44:11 UTC
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Post by RPS
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.
(1)
install homebrew first (http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew), then
$ sudo brew install emacs

(2)
I prefer emacs nightlies. newer is better
http://emacsformacosx.com/builds

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