Dear John,

I can recommend http://aquamacs.org for Mac OS X, you could even try one of the nightly builds (this is the Emacs 24.x branch in the development section of the site) - they work very well for us.

Warm regards,
 Stefan

On 06.06.2012, at 15:18, Kim Young wrote:

> I go to http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/ to download 23.4 for os x lion but the only install documentation I can see is for windows. Are there docs for os x install somewhere? I am a total unix/emacs/programing newbee.
> 
> John "Kim" Young
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