Re: Emacs for Mac OS X - questions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.06.2009 um 06:04 schrieb Ian Eure:

> 22-based Emacsen:
>
> [...]
>
>  - Emacs 22 from MacPorts. Newer than the version which ships with  
> OS X, text-only.

There are also 22.3 packages which can be built and installed with Fink.

> 23-based Emacsen:
>
>  - Emacs-app from MacPorts. The CVS snapshot is five months out of  
> date, and the non-CVS build is version "23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3." I have  
> no idea what that means, since it doesn't resemble any of the  
> pretest versions of Emacs 23 released so far.

The same is also available via Fink. This build was an intermediate  
step to update the very old code basis of "Cocoa Emacs" – could be it  
was 21.x! Since GNU Emacs 23.x exists half a decade and its Unicode  
effort was seen, this code base was used (there 23.0.0) and the NS  
(or GNUstep/OPENSTEP or Cocoa/Aqua) additions were patched into it.  
It was on the way to a ready Emacs.app v. 9.0 (version 8.0 has a blue  
icon and is based on 20.7) and Release Candidate 3.

It fits well into a museum… (for daily use not recommended, too  
restricted)

>  - Compile your own from CVS. It's very straightforward.


It helps to have Fink or MacPorts with their additional software  
packages available that are used by GNU Emacs 23.1.50.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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