From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jochem Huhmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and osx Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:08:20 +0200 Organization: Home@Work Message-ID: References: <_D97e.1227972$35.44954684@news4.tin.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114463409 31862 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2005 21:10:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 21:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 25 23:10:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQApv-0007wf-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:09:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQAvW-00044C-1q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:15:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!area.cu.mi.it!news.newsland.it!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1114463312 04 13315 WbSRrJt15chVSVqe 050425 21:08:32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: XH-l80ZbreAEiGKijJfBbw7+qpDEJWikHckf2SyLFHaICqxlY7pxw6 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aAWMc1nIwjrGOurPLTjP0ny+uAo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:88717 gnu.emacs.help:130466 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:26036 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26036 Rogério Brito writes: > Jochem Huhmann wrote: >> Exactly. Get the latest Emacs from the CVS, configure, make, install, >> enjoy. It just works. This posting is written with a Emacs running on >> Mac OS X, along with Carbon-GUI, anti-aliased fonts and everything, >> compiled straight from the sources. > > Humm, that's a pain in the arse, especially with slower machines lower > on RAM. :-( May well be. I'm having no problems on a 1.25 GHz Mac mini with 512MB of RAM, though. Could be faster, granted, but surely fast enough to work with. And while Emacs may be a memory hog, *everything* on OS X is. The average freeware menubar clock eats as much memory as Emacs. > BTW, would it at least run in many versions of MacOS X (say, 10.1, > 10.2 etc) if compiled with a current toolchain? Sorry, I don't know. I would think that it should work, though. I do not see anything in Emacs that requires the latest OS from Apple. >> There is Fink, darwinports and then individual (binary) packages done >> by well-meaning people. > > Honestly, I don't know why fink didn't try to merge its efforts with > Debian (or copy them, for that matter). Who? Apple? There have been rumours that darwinports would become part of the OS. Let's wait for Tiger. I wouldn't held my breath, though. Debian is another story. Can you imagine the typical Debian developer working with the typical Apple employee? I could rather imagine OS X becoming a Debian sub-project than the other way round ;-) > Indeed. There are many versions (Gerben Wierda's, Fink's etc) and (at > least Fink's) is not what I'd call "mature". I've had no problems with teTeX from the darwinports project. Installed without a glitch, works fine. Well done. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery