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The Emacs package from Nix. It’s the only macOS build of Emacs I used that was fully featured, provided in binary form, distributed from a reputable source, and
by soraminazuki 4y ago
The Emacs package from Nix. It’s the only macOS build of Emacs I used that was fully featured, provided in binary form, distributed from a reputable source, and not broken. I initially used Homebrew Emacs, but it removed GUI support a while back. I then briefly tried the emacsformacosx build, the one Homebrew Cask points to, but I stopped using that too because it’s not compiled with the full set of dependencies and isn’t supported by DoomEmacs [1]. I then moved to emacs-plus, but that too had issues like the lack of binary packages and unreliable updates. I finally settled on Nix and it hasn’t given me problems since.
The current situation personally came off as a surprise considering the popularity of Emacs.
[1]: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/085b5563fc73daf50d4661b45214123c5ed820f7/docs/getting_started.org#where-not-to-install-emacs-from https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/085b5563fc73daf5...