I've heard this suggested a few times (not just in this thread) - is there an advantage to running Carbon Emacs instead of plain-old-GNU-Emacs-in-a-terminal?
-atw On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Scott Hess <sh...@chromium.org> wrote: > +1. I found Aquamacs weird/annoying. Carbon Emacs seemed a lot > better. [I come from a Linux background.] > > -scott > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Kenneth Russell <k...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > > There's a Carbon-based, non-Aquamacs Emacs available for Mac OS X. > Recommended. > > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CarbonEmacsPackage > > > > -Ken > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@chromium.org> > wrote: > >> I've been using Aquamacs, although I don't like the fact that it has *so > >> many* modes built-in and turned-on by default, and I also don't like the > >> fact that it doesn't lend itself well to customization (it has its own > set > >> of initialization files it keeps hidden off). It's decent, though (but > >> again, I've devolved over the years to using almost vanilla emacs > bindings > >> to allow moving to new platforms easier). > >> I've also been known to use the built-in GNU emacs from a terminal shell > >> (especially when working remotely/SSH-ing). I see no reason why you > can't > >> have the same experience that you do with your Linux box, although you'd > >> have to find a way to drag the google3 elisp over. > >> -atw > >> > >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. < > phajdan...@chromium.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Recently I started working more and more on Mac OS X, and I'm trying to > >>> find an editor that would work the best for me. > >>> On Linux I used GNU Emacs with many customizations. Some of the most > handy > >>> ones for working on Chromium were Google Style script and launching the > >>> compilation from the editor. I also used Vim keybindings (Viper) a lot. > >>> On Mac, I tried Aquamacs, but some of my customizations broke. Also, > the > >>> Vim emulation seems to be only half-working (selecting text in Vim > "visual" > >>> mode isn't working). > >>> I also tried Xcode, but it seems that the editor isn't powerful enough. > I > >>> don't know how to quickly remove an entire line (2 keystrokes in Vim), > or a > >>> few lines (3 keystrokes). However, the "Open Quickly" option > (cmd-shift-d) > >>> is very nice. I also couldn't find an easy solution to automatically > remove > >>> trailing whitespace in Xcode. > >>> Do you have any tips about effective editing on Mac? Which solution > would > >>> you recommend? > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
