what flavor emacs?

what flavor emacs?

[Jude DaShiell]

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.



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jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>

Re: what flavor emacs?

[Kevin Montuori]

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.

k.
  

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Re: what flavor emacs?

[Stefan Vollmar]

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> 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.

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 Stefan
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Re: what flavor emacs?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2013 um 17:07 schrieb Jude DaShiell:

> Earlier today, I had a powerpc mac pro delivered to me.

How old is it? Does it have Leopard? Then the "AppKit" variant is best suited for it.

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Greetings

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Re: what flavor emacs?

[Jude DaShiell]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> 
> Am 02.09.2013 um 17:07 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
> 
> > Earlier today, I had a powerpc mac pro delivered to me.
> 
> How old is it? Does it have Leopard? Then the "AppKit" variant is best 
suited for it.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>   Pete
> 
> Got Mole problems?
> Call Avogadro 6.02 x 10^23
> 
> 
It's got Leopard 10.5.8 on it and works with that version.

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jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>

Re: what flavor emacs?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2013 um 17:25 schrieb Jude DaShiell:

> It's got Leopard 10.5.8 on it and works with that version.

All you need is Xcode installed, then fetch the sources of GNU 24.3 then fetch from – in TRAMP syntax – /ftp:anonymous@ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp:/emacs the archive emacs-24.3-mac-4.2.tar.gz. Out pack emacs-24.3.tar.gz, rename the just created directory emacs-24.3 to emacs-24.3-mac-4.2 and out pack emacs-24.3-mac-4.2.tar.gz. Change directory into emacs-24.3-mac-4.2 and apply the patches in the file patch-mac ('patch -p 0 < patch-mac'). Perform a ./configure with at least the argument --with-mac, compile, and install. You'll have the best GNU Emacs integrated into Mac OS X and Aqua.

The NS variant needs librsvg2 for SVG support, the "AppKit" variant uses Apple's WebKit with its integrated SVG support.

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Greetings

  Pete

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Re: what flavor emacs?

[João Távora]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 02.09.2013 um 17:25 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
>
>> It's got Leopard 10.5.8 on it and works with that version.
>
> All you need is Xcode installed, then fetch the sources of GNU 24.3
> then fetch from – in TRAMP syntax –
> /ftp:anonymous@ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp:/emacs the archive
> emacs-24.3-mac-4.2.tar.gz. Out pack emacs-24.3.tar.gz, rename the just
> created directory emacs-24.3 to emacs-24.3-mac-4.2 and out pack
> emacs-24.3-mac-4.2.tar.gz. Change directory into emacs-24.3-mac-4.2
> and apply the patches in the file patch-mac ('patch -p 0 <
> patch-mac'). Perform a ./configure with at least the argument
> --with-mac, compile, and install. You'll have the best GNU Emacs
> integrated into Mac OS X and Aqua.

I use this option, but considerably simplify the previous steps by
installing Homebrew (http://brew.sh/) on your Mac and, going to
https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port and following instructions
there:

   	If you'd like to install with Homebrew, please

        $ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

      and then
       
        $ brew install emacs-mac

The "emacs-mac-port" github repo contains a tree where all that patch
magic has already been done. It also contains a Homebrew "recipe", which
means, "brew install emacs-mac" should take care of configuring and
building with appropriate options and placing the result in a reasonable
place, which I think is /usr/local.

It has the advantage that it can coexist with other "brew" installations
of other emacsen, so you can decide which is best.

You still need the latest Xcode to compile things with Homebrew however,
so that step is common.

João