Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 25.06.2009 um 20:27 schrieb Marc Tfardy:

>   - can I switch off menubar, toolbar and scrollbar?

No. At least I've never seen a way to switch off scroll-bar. The menu  
bar in the Carbon and Cocoa ports is put into the  menu bar.

>   - is the look & feel approximately like GNU Emacs?

Yes, in GNU Emacs, the X client.

>   - can I open file without popup dialog - simply with C-x C-f in
>     minibuffer?

Of course.

>   - can I suppress all popup dialogs?

I don't think so…

>   - working M-w, C-w, C-y or must I use C-x, C-c, C-v?

Rebinding of keys and modifiers is possible. Some Apple Cmd-keys are  
grabbed by Mac OS X before Emacs can see them.

>   - can I switch off tabs?

What are tabs? Do you mean C-i?

>   - working all this nice extension elisp packages from internet  
> without
>     any kind of adaptations?

I haven't tested all, just three or four… (htmlize, session.el,  
AUCTeX, tabbar.el)

>   - what GNU Emacs features do not working in Aquamacs?

I don't know. Aquamacs Emacs does not seem to friendly co-exist with  
my init file and my way of working with GNU Emacs.

>   - on which inconvenience and discomforts do I have to count? What is
>     different to GNU Emacs?


Since you know what's inconvenient and not comforting you it's better  
you find this out yourself. You can also try Emacs.app, the Cocoa  
version of GNU Emacs 23.1.50. A few hours ago a description was sent  
where to get the source of GNU Emacs 23.1.50 from which you can build  
Emacs.app on Mac OS X.

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Greetings

  Pete

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