On Dec 6, 2007, at 7:23 PM, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote: >>>>>> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:27:59 +0000, Peter Jones >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> It's the perfect solution for me on Mac OS X, and I enjoy using it. >> Emacs.app is much much better than the alternatives. > > If the "alternatives" include Carbon Emacs, could you explain in what > aspects you think "Emacs.app is much much better" concretely? >
A while back I decided that I would switch from TeXShop to emacs of some kind for writing in LaTeX. Auctex just looked too good, as much as I loved TeXShop, which anyhow had problems (and maybe still does) for instance leaking memory and with the ogrekit find panel (maybe not TeXShop's fault but ogrekit). I poked around with various emacs-for- mac packages and settled on Emacs.app. I decided I would rather have something rather bare bones, and add things as I needed them. Emacs is so well documented, and so intuitive (I know some people are laughing out loud right now that I have said this---but I am almost always able to guess the right customization buffer or command for something I want to try) that I figured that I would just learn as I went along. Carbon emacs had some much already added in, and I wasn't sure how it all worked. For instance, Auctex comes pre-packaged, and so do many, many color and font schemes. As I have gone along, I have added things of my own to Emacs.app, such as a dot mode and various other modes for html, xml, etc, etc. It's so fantastically stable, for one thing. I find that it is quite mac-like where I would expect, and quite emacs- like where I would expect, and that mac and emacs commands that do the same thing don't interfere with each other. This is probably not the typical user's motivation or experience, but there it is. So, Adrian and others working on this, thanks, and also, best wishes to developers of other emacs-on-mac adaptations. -Adam G ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emacs-app-dev- mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emacs-app-dev-
