I too have been building but lately after the 23 betas I started grabbing the builds from http://emacsformacosx.com On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Eric Schulte wrote: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: > > > Hello fellows orgers, > > > > After almost 5 years in a love-hate relationship with Linux and lately, > Ubuntu (which I acknowledge, is a > > marvelous OS, and that has been getting greater with each release), I > decided to go to the next level > > (read: Focus on web development/graphics design and forget about tweaking > my OS for some time) and buy a > > Mac. There's no way I will ever use Windows again, except for selected > games or eventual entertainment > > software that I'm not able to run on Mac or Linux, so, the logical > decision was a Mac. > > > > Philosophies aside, orgmode and emacs have become keys pieces of my life, > I have almost every aspect of my > > life recorded in text-files managed by orgmode. This won't change > whatever OS I use. So I politely ask, > > what is the best emacs distribution for the Mac? I've heard carbon emacs > is the logical choice, but some > > say Aquamacs is better. What I want is an emacs that up-to-date with > current releases and that is as close > > as possible to the one I use on my Ubuntu box right now > (emacs-snapshot-gtk 23.1.50.1), so, any > > suggestions/ideas are greatly appreciated :) > > > > Hi Marcelo, > > I've been building emacs from source on my Mac for years; when running > configure pass the "--with-ns" option and then after running "make > install" you will find an Emacs.app Mac application in your nextstep > directory. > > I think this to be the best approach as (like you) I was coming to Mac > from linux and wanted an Emacs that was as similar as possible to *true* > linux Emacs. > > also you might find the following helpful. > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > ;; on mac apple is meta > (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta) > (setq mac-option-modifier 'super) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Best -- Eric > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marcelo. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >