So I've officially switched to carbon emacs, and I'm loving it. Is there a
way to launch a second instance - double-clicking the executable seems to
just bring the original instance to the foreground. Feel free to tell me I'm
Doing It Wrong, but when working on two trees simultaneously I like to open
them in separate emacs instances so I don't accidentally make edits in the
wrong tree.

-atw

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:16 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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