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I'm curious. The homebrew formula seems to just download emacs from the main GNU repository. So what makes emacsformacosx better? The website doesn't seem to ex

I'm curious. The homebrew formula seems to just download emacs from the main GNU repository. So what makes emacsformacosx better? The website doesn't seem to explain this.

grawlinson 9y ago
If I remember correctly, one of the developers of GNU Emacs removed Mac-specific functionality as GNU doesn't want these type of patches in the software that they release as it goes against their core ethos.
- sigjuice 9y ago
  Is there more information on this? Perhaps a mailing list thread or a Git commit?
  - fleg 9y ago
    There was this situation when on MacOSX emojis were colored, what was not the case on Linux, so it was disabled on MacOSX. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NEWS#L1723 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...
- deleted 9y ago
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100k 9y ago
One thing it gives you out of the box that is difficult with the other Homebrew options (there is also https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/overview) is a standard macOS application that you can launch with Spotlight.