From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc Tfardy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:34:10 +0200 Organization: bum-cyk-cyk Message-ID: References: <41e20273-546b-4df4-9079-a4d68f225ec0@r25g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1246034972 32517 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2009 16:49:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:49:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 18:49:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MKEc7-0006WM-Cu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:49:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MKEc6-0001Jd-R3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:49:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!news.onet.pl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p4fd33c71.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: news.onet.pl 1246034050 23471 79.211.60.113 (26 Jun 2009 16:34:10 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: niusy@onet.pl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:34:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: <41e20273-546b-4df4-9079-a4d68f225ec0@r25g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170345 comp.emacs:98320 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:45:19 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65562 Archived-At: queries0 schrieb: > On Jun 25, 2:27 pm, Marc Tfardy wrote: >> I plan to switch from windows to intel mac and Aquamacs and I don't want >> use windows under mac - neither in virtual machine nor as dual boot. > > I have been using emacs on OS X (10.4 ppc) for a few years, and emacs > is one of my main applications also. Aquamacs is an excellent > application, and I believe the answer is "yes, you can do things as > you would like" to all your questions. > > I switched from using Aquamacs to using carbon emacs about six months > ago. Carbon emacs does feel more like using emacs on other unix > computers, and customization or adding emacs packages is done in a > more "conventional" way. This is just my opinion. Thanks for Carbon Emacs hint, but the question is how long Carbon Emacs will be available? Apple say no carbon support in Snow Leopard :( > Also, if you open a terminal or Xterm, OS X has GNU Emacs "built in", > i.e. you don't need Aquamacs or Carbon Emacs, emacs is part of OS X Yes, this is still a alternative. regards Marc