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I stopped reading at '"real" Emacs is typically installed via Homebrew at /usr/local/bin/emacs'.

• ibrahima 11y ago
  Err, to be fair the context was that OS X usually has a very outdated version of Emacs. (Don't have a Mac so dunno for sure if that's still the case or if the article is out of date.)
  • cenazoic 11y ago
    On Yosemite 10.10.3, the emacs version is 22.1.1.
    • klibertp 11y ago
      So it's really ancient: 22.1 was released in 2007.
      • rafadc 11y ago
        I've installed through homebrew and the version says GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1347.57) of 2015-04-13 on mymachine
    • hatmatrix 11y ago
      That's the emacs that comes with the BSD OS. You can download and install 24.5-1 at http://emacsformacosx.com/ http://emacsformacosx.com/ without having to use homebrew.
• e40 11y ago
  Yes the version @ http://emacsformacosx.com/ http://emacsformacosx.com/ is much better.
  • rafadc 11y ago
    Why? What is the difference between that and brew install emacs --cocoa?
  • samatman 11y ago
    Gotta throw in a pitch for the Japanese Cocoa-native Emacs port: https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port Running this with Spacemacs is... well, surprisingly pleasant. Unicode, pixel level scrolling, image support that isn't totally broken, it's...nice.