From: Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com>,
org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs24-starter-kit and Aquamacs 3.0
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 21:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <381F2253-F4EC-4719-A8A0-2E4233D6D2C4@agrarianresearch.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2egzu27uw.fsf@tsdye.com>
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 <tsd@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 <rick@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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-15 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-15 11:59 emacs24-starter-kit and Aquamacs 3.0 Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-15 13:01 ` Rick Frankel
2014-05-15 14:28 ` Axel Kielhorn
2014-05-15 14:31 ` Vikas Rawal
2014-05-15 17:19 ` Rick Frankel
2014-05-15 18:51 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-05-15 19:41 ` Vikas Rawal [this message]
2014-05-16 1:58 ` Grant Rettke
2014-05-15 17:43 ` Peter Neilson
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