> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013, at 11:07, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 
>> Earlier today, I had a powerpc mac pro delivered to me.  What I would
>> like to know is what flavor of emacs to download and install for it, and that 
>> the latest version available for that emacs would be.
> 
> I'm a fan of: http://emacsforosx.com/
> 
> Works as expected.


"expect" works both ways, unfortunately - you should expect that European keyboards on the Mac will not work out-of-the-box for rather important characters like {}|~[]. Aquamacs fixes this (which might not be an incentive for you if you have a US keyboard). It also supports a number of other Mac-specific things - http://aquamacs.org. I understand that some Mac-specific adaptions are not everybody's cup of tea (not "pure" Emacs) but I find them very useful.

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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