In my experience, you want "emacs-app", which is just upstream emacs compiled with Aqua support (https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/81b99bcf7c59b53

In my experience, you want "emacs-app", which is just upstream emacs compiled with Aqua support (https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/81b99bcf7c59b532954aff6b6bb5c77eb23ba754/editors/emacs/Portfile#L266 https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/81b99bcf7c59...) to avoid going through XQuartz.