This thread is rather off-topic for this list. Isn’t it? But since we have a hugely tolerant community, it is perhaps okay.
I have a homebrew install, with a symbolic link to /Applications/Emacs.app. Works just fine. Vikas On 15-May-2014, at 8:51 pm, Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> wrote: > Aloha all, > > Macports has an emacs-app that bundles all the files in > /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/ > > We use this at work and find it convenient. > > All the best, > Tom > > Rick Frankel <r...@rickster.com> writes: > >> On 2014-05-15 10:31, Vikas Rawal wrote: >>> Probably not the answer you want, but as a long-time mac and emacs >>> user, my suggestion would be to use the vanilla os x version of emacs. >>> >>> The "nextstep" build of emacs runs as a native app, >>> >>> You are suggesting to a Mac user to build his own Emacs? >>> Do you know what that takes? >>> About 10 minutes :-) >>> >>> I just realized that it is even possible to download it prebuilt. >>> >>> I recommend a homebrew-based install of emacs. >>> >>> I like the version available from railwaycat/emacsmacport tap >>> (https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port [1]). >> >> Not familiar w/ emacsports, will take a look at it this weekend. My >> problem w/ the homebrew install (and i'm a homebrew fan) is that >> i prefer the "all-in-one" (--with-ns) package and not having the app >> spread around /usr/local in unix fashion the way the homebrew install >> works. >> >> Personally, i used homebrew to install the build dependencies >> (autoconf, automake, imagemagick, etc) and the git mirror of the emacs >> trunk (http://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git) YMMV. >> >> rick >> >> > > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com >