Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions

[Xah Lee]

you don't seems to have tried but asked a bunch of questions.

mac os x comes with emacs that can be run in Terminal. Which,
basically satisfies ALL your queries.

and if you want some form GUI, yet stick with emacs's traditional way
of operation, you can try Carbon Emacs or NeXT Emacs (aka
“Emacs.app”).

... what a bunch of silly questions. You must have been a decade out
of touch.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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On Jun 25, 11:27 am, 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.
> Emacs is one of my main application so it is very important for me that
> all things are working as usual. Here my questions:
>
>    - can I switch off menubar, toolbar and scrollbar?
>
>    - is the look & feel approximately like GNU Emacs?
>
>    - can I open file without popup dialog - simply with C-x C-f in
>      minibuffer?
>
>    - can I suppress all popup dialogs?
>
>    - working M-w, C-w, C-y or must I use C-x, C-c, C-v?
>
>    - can I switch off tabs?
>
>    - working all this nice extension elisp packages from internet without
>      any kind of adaptations?
>
>    - what GNU Emacs features do not working in Aquamacs? In "Appendix
>      F - Emacs and Mac OS" is written:
>
>      "Emacs built on Mac OS X supports most of its major features except
>       display support of PostScript images. The following features of
>       Emacs are not supported on Mac OS Classic: unexec (`dump-emacs'),
>       asynchronous subprocesses (`start-process'), and networking
>       (`open-network-stream'). As a result, packages such as Gnus, GUD,
>       and Comint do not work. Synchronous subprocesses (`call-process')
>       are supported on non-Carbon build, but specially-crafted external
>       programs are needed. Since external programs to handle commands
>       such as `print-buffer' and `diff' are not available on Mac OS
>       Classic, they are not supported. Non-Carbon build on Mac OS Classic
>       does not support some features such as file dialogs, drag-and-drop,
>       and Unicode menus."
>
>       Is it still true for Aquamacs?
>
>    - on which inconvenience and discomforts do I have to count? What is
>      different to GNU Emacs?
>