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Not wishing to get into an argument or stray off-topic too far, but Emacs (Carbon Emacs, at least), works absolutely fine on Mac OS. I've had no problems with i
by yangyang 17y ago
Not wishing to get into an argument or stray off-topic too far, but Emacs (Carbon Emacs, at least), works absolutely fine on Mac OS. I've had no problems with it, and I use lots of extra libraries.
- vdm 17y agoI agree, if you're on 10.6 and you value your time, just use Carbon Emacs and stay away from Cocoa Emacs until more than 2 people start committing regularly. It's old but it Just Works. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=history;f=src/nsterm.m http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs.git;a=history;f=...
- ubernostrum 17y agoOr run Emacs the way it was meant to be used: in a terminal window. I've been doing that for, oh, about a decade now and haven't seen much cause to switch.
- jrockway 17y agoSo you use OS X for the nice UI and yet you are willing to use Emacs with an inferior UI? No thanks. I will stick to Linux.
- eru 17y agoThere's also Aquamacs. Seems to work quite fine.
- yangyang 17y agoIndeed. But it's not like using Emacs on any other platform.
- eru 17y agoOK. I do not use it myself. But my fiancee has a Mac and seems quite happy with Aquamacs. (She used Emacs on Ubuntu before for some time, to do LaTeX with.)
- vetinari 17y agoMy memories of Aquamacs are full of fighting with the thing to do what I wanted. It was overriding everything I customized in my .emacs. About the only positive thing I found about it was the ability to run in full-screen mode (something that ntemacs is still unable to do).
- mgrouchy 17y agoI use an in-terminal editor all the time on OSX, what I like about OSX is that I get the Sexy UI with a lot of the things I have come to love in Linux(at least in a terminal, where I spend much of my time anyway)
- ubernostrum 17y agoI use OS X because I can keep my dev workflow while getting much nicer applications for everything else.
- jbellis 17y agoThat's what I did when I used to us OS X. Then I realized, if I'm just using a terminal anyway, I might as well actually use linux and get a real package manager back. (Edit: I do miss spotlight. But not as much as I missed apt+dpkg.)
- yangyang 17y agoIt was probably "meant to be used" (or at least originally written) on a physical terminal rather than a terminal emulator. Nothing wrong with moving with the times. A graphical emacs session does offer plenty of benefits, not least having less hassle with keybindings, and much greater flexibility with fonts and colours.
- jfager 17y agoCocoa Emacs works great for me, I've never had a problem with it.
- asdfoud 17y agoCocoa Emacs has a number of issues with code quality. Feeling lucky? (set-foreground-color "rgb:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
- jrockway 17y agoFWIW, this is true of all of Emacs outside of the "core" that has the most users. It's written in C and the parts that only have a few maintainers don't get read very often. The result is flakiness. (I spent a lot of time reading the font/face handling code to make eslide auto-resize text. I couldn't figure out how to do it cleanly, as the API did not work as documented or coded (!). Eventually I hacked around it, and my hack works fine. Welcome to Emacs Lisp programming...)