Sean and Lee:
In general, I have considered the difference between Aquamacs and GNU
Emacs to be that the former prioritizes computer-user interaction via
mouse, command-bars and menus (which requires a lot of hand movement
between keyboard and mouse, but enables the user to dispense with
memorizing the meanings of dozens of key chords) -- while the latter
minimizes user need to move hands off the keyboard thus facilitating
fast touch typing (using key combinations to move point, set mark, copy
region, etc.)
Whether key bindings (especially those that involve the Apple command
key) conform to Apple style helps if you are used to them from other Mac
applications, but is a secondary difference. By the way, I can't find
just what bindings to the command key Emacs 24 (for Os X) does use.
(Aquamacs comes with 41!) The Emacs-24 _C-h b_ listing doesn't seem to
show them.
A difference that I find very useful is the use of tabs in Aquamacs for
rapidly controlling which buffers are being displayed. (One can create a
new buffer either in a new frame or under a new tab in an existing frame.)
There are other differences, but none of the differences between
Aquamacs and GNU Emacs (including the ones just mentioned) are critical
to what makes a good Emacs-based Clojure IDE, and I will be perfectly
happy with either Aquamacs or GNU Emacs as the base of a "Mac Clojure
Box" downloadable as are many Mac applications (from the Mac Apps
Store?) and installable simply by dragging an icon into the applications
folder.
Talk about being a parasitic noobie. I wish I had the expertise to help
Phil Hagelberg and other swank-clojure and Leiningen contributors toward
achieving this goal. What they have developed so far takes us a long
way toward it (whether or not it is one of the goals they have
explicitly in mind).
--Larry
On 5/7/12 10:40 PM, Sean Corfield wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Lee Spector<lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote:
My recollection was that Aquamacs had more support for Mac OS native menus and
other GUI elements too...
Probably, yes. I installed it last year and I seem to recall some
native chrome and a menubar - but then folks recommended using Emacs
24 so I switched and haven't had any problems. I expand Emacs to
near-fullscreen and I like the lack of distractions (lack of chrome)
since I work in it all day.
What I should have said would be "really wonderful," more precisely, is something with
"close to single click download/install of a complete [emacs] Clojure programming
environment"
That's certainly true. Any Emacs-based approach is a multi-step setup
right now and everyone seems to have their own favorite way to set
things up. I've helped a number of Mac users get Emacs 24 + Starter
Kit + Leiningen + Swank-Clojure up and running and I always seem to
forget some minor step and have to redo _something_ :)
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