Forgot to thank you for this run-down. Thanks! I guess it depends -- like too much else -- on what I want.
Charles Hartman On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Charles, > > There are indeed various versions of Emacs out there for OS X. You > can't > tell the players without a scorecard. Here's the rundown, based on > what's available at > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ and elsewhere: > > Carbon Emacs Package June '05: As far as I can tell, a well-maintained > build of Emacs from CVS, with the standard Emacs interface. It > seems to > be released fairly regularly. > > Emacs-on-Aqua: This is a Cocoa binding of Emacs, derived from the old > NeXT port of Emacs. It has a nice Aqua look and feel (unlike standard > Carbon Emacs). Its main drawback is that it's more than a full version > behind current Emacs (20.x, not 22.x). Development on it has just > begun > again after being dormant for a couple of years (i.e. it was last > released for Jaguar). > > Yaced (Yet Another Carbon Emacs Distribution, at > http://yaced.sourceforge.net): Pretty similar to Carbon Emacs Package > above, with some customizations geared to making it a good editing > environment for LaTeX. The maintainer, Norm Gall, also packages > AucTeX. > > Aquamacs, which I'm working on with David Reitter: This is a more > radical revision of Emacs: it overrides a lot of the standard Emacs > interface conventions, keyboard shortcuts, etc. and replaces them with > standard Aqua keymappings. i.e., Apple-C is the preferred method to > copy > text. This is based on Carbon Emacs. I like the approach that Aquamacs > uses because I no longer have to choose between Emacs' power and > BBEdit/Textwrangler's ease of use. If you prefer standard Emacs, > Aquamacs will probably drive you crazy. > > There are probably other builds that I'm not aware of, but these > are the > ones that seem to be most popular. > > Let me know if you have other questions. > > - -- > Cheers, > > Kevin Walzer, PhD > WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X > http://www.wordtech-software.com > http://www.kevin-walzer.com > http://www.smallbizmac.com. > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFCsOQGJmdQs+6YVcoRAh6aAKCEpNAdyuJ/h9cjy+MhuLAVjrHWlQCdEAoH > LrGOprXPdApArcDD6LTd5d4= > =Lstc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
