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Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions


From: Nurullah Akkaya
Subject: Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:57:50 +0300



On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Marc Tfardy <bum@cyk.cyk> wrote:
queries0 schrieb:

> On Jun 25, 2:27 pm, Marc Tfardy <b...@cyk.cyk> wrote:
>> I plan to switch from windows to intel mac and Aquamacs and I don't want
>> use windows under mac - neither in virtual machine nor as dual boot.
>
> I have been using emacs on OS X (10.4 ppc) for a few years, and emacs
> is one of my main applications also. Aquamacs is an excellent
> application, and I believe the answer is "yes, you can do things as
> you would like" to all your questions.
>
> I switched from using Aquamacs to using carbon emacs about six months
> ago. Carbon emacs does feel more like using emacs on other unix
> computers, and customization or adding emacs packages is done in a
> more "conventional" way. This is just my opinion.

Thanks for Carbon Emacs hint, but the question is how long Carbon Emacs
will be available? Apple say no carbon support in Snow Leopard :(


> Also, if you open a terminal or Xterm, OS X has GNU Emacs "built in",
> i.e. you don't need Aquamacs or Carbon Emacs, emacs is part of OS X

Yes, this is still a alternative.

regards
Marc


AFAIK carbon stuff is removed from emacs if you build it now it uses cocoa.


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