YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote the following on Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:23:54AM +0900: > If the "alternatives" include Carbon Emacs, could you explain in what > aspects you think "Emacs.app is much much better" concretely?
I've not played with Carbon Emacs enough to include it in that list. I was mostly referring to terminal Emacs and Aquamacs. I was under the assumption that Carbon Emacs was a thing of the past, but now realize my assumption was most likely incorrect. In the short amount of time that I've played with Carbon Emacs, I can say that Emacs.app (Cocoa Emacs) seems faster, and better integrated into the Mac UI. I've always struggled with which text editor to recommend to new programmers on the Mac platform, and now feel strongly that I'd recommend Emacs.app. Initially, it would be familiar for them because all of the standard Mac key bindings work, but they don't get in your way if you don't want to use them (unlike CUA mode). But as they realize the full power of Emacs, they needn't use those keys anymore. I would, however, like to see Emacs.app integrated into core GNU Emacs, so that I don't have to be subjected to the bleeding edge. That is probably a major advantage to using Carbon Emacs for now. Personally, I feel that the Cocoa API is the way to go since it is the officially blessed API from Apple, and Carbon is more of a holdover. The Cocoa (NextStep) API also benefits other GNU Emacs platforms because it provides an alternative UI for wherever GNUStep can be run. This is all probably more than you wanted to read, and since I've only been using Emacs for a few weeks, probably also very ignorant. -- Peter Jones http://pmade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emacs-app-dev- mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev-
