Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
OK, I'll bite. What specifically is wrong with the system emacs that requires folks to struggle so hard to build another copy? It even supports carbon if you add an app wrapper (like the one I just attached - a mere 55k, and most of that is the icon), so I'm not sure what would lead one to struggle so hard to build emacs again. Yes, the macports version should certainly work just on general principle, but that's not the question I'm asking.
I was going to reply that /usr/bin/emacs is only emacs-21, but then I just noticed that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard apparently ships with emacs-22. Still, having the latest stable Emacs is a plausible desire for users still with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
A second plausible use case might be to use MacPorts for the packaging of various Emacs-modes (SLIME, nxml-mode, haskell-mode, etc.), offering an infrastructure for their timely updating.
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