If you are using OSX and not using homebrew, its a highly recommended tool for all these issues. Did you see this wiki? http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Installing_Emacs_on_OS_X
Darren On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:19 PM, eehouse <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a longtime Emacs user, but always on Linux. Now I'm using MacOS at > work for the first time (ok, since leaving Apple in '97 :-) and am > trying to use Emacs there to take advantage of all the time I've > invested learning it. Problem is: it sucks! It crashes at least three > time per day, and that in an environment where pretty much nothing > else crashes. If I weren't so invested I'd have given up after the > first couple of days. > > AFAICT, the version I'm using is official gnu. It identifies itself as > "Version 24.5 (9.0)" and has a url pointing to www.gnu.org. I'm using it > in the windowing environment, not a terminal -- which is a requirement. > > I've heard people on this list describe themselves as happy with MacOS > as a compromise between the power/stability of a Unix-based system and > the familiarity (to others at least) of a consumer OS. Surely some of > you are using emacs. If so, where'd you get it, and what version? > > Thanks, > > --Eric > -- > > ****************************************************************************** > * From the desktop of: Eric House, [email protected] > * > * Crosswords for Android now in beta: via Google Play or > xwords.sf.net * > > ****************************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Darren R. Couch [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
