OS X is not great for developing GNU style applications, but for web or database kind of workflows, it's really pretty alright. So much of the Linux/Unix tooling was built up with networking and communication in mind, and I feel like you always need to open some special "thing," or buy a $29.99 shareware, to do something that's native on Linux or even OS X. Both are completely adequate as tools to SSH into some machine, but you don't feel like you're "right there" in the same way. Emacs + Tramp is just great, and me still having the MS Office stuff kept my admin ppl happy. Because almost nothing in Mac uses the ctrl key, you don't have to "remap" your muscle memory when switching between Mac applications to Emacs.Īdd in a working shell with ssh, and a half decent set of system utilities, and it was perfectly adequate as a front-end to our Linux machines. You can use the OS copy/paste with ⌘+C, ⌘+V, but then you also get all the Emacs keys. emacs-plus, in contrast, is GNU emacs with a couple patches added on top for sundry quality-of-life improvements on. You get extra variables and options, better integration with system font rendering, smooth pixel scrolling, etc. Specifically, the fact that mac places so many shortcuts on the ⌘ key, it's like you get a whole other register of shortcuts you can use with Emacs. emacs-mac is a proper fork of GNU emacs with significantly deeper integration with macOS and its cocoa GUI framework. I will say, that I really quite enjoyed my short time doing dev work for Linux servers, with a Mac desktop, and Emacs was my go-to editor. I do not have a recommendation for a Mac Emacs. is more like Debian in OSX, sucks down its whole toolchain and lib dependancy pile thats fine by me as long as it all plays nice Re: Emacs for mac, Stefan Monnier < Re: Emacs for mac, Doug Davis, 2 Prev by Date: Emacs for mac Next by Date: Re: Patch request - menu modifications Previous by thread: Emacs for mac Next by. Homebrew Emacs? (cask build, to include the UI, IIRC). Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) > Im running version 11.1, Big Sur. which distribution (for Emacs, or feel free to comment in general) is the way to go? emacs.d from git and be good to go, though I expect some gotchas with all-the-icons or vs-code-icons font issues or the like, we'll see. either be it bundled versions, or installs its own, I'm fine.) "Best" - seamless standard Emacs 27.1+, but if it is well integrated into Mac-dome thats okay as well (ie: clipboard works I'd hope, shell/comint mode works sensibly, has the right set of external tools so it can work like when it runs gerp or whatever, it works. (I'm out of date with OSX, and ignoring the likely build-in ancient version of Emacs.) I'm a heavy BSD and Linux user, accustomed for work to Emacs in win32, Emacs self built in Linux and BSD, the usual rpm and debs, even cygwin. Just received a Mac for work and therefore the first task of course is to get Emacs on there.
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