+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?
>>>
>>
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>

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