Carbon Emacs makes the Alt key work right, and copy/paste to the system pasteboard works like I expect w/in emacs. I find using emacs w/in Terminal.app to be annoying enough that I use emacsclient to throw edits out to Emacs.app.
-scott On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Drew Wilson <atwil...@chromium.org> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
