Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celose...@gmail.com> 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
