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Charles,

There are indeed various versions of Emacs out there for OS X. You can't
tell the players without a scorecard. Here's the rundown, based on
what's available at
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ and elsewhere:

Carbon Emacs Package June '05: As far as I can tell, a well-maintained
build of Emacs from CVS, with the standard Emacs interface. It seems to
be released fairly regularly.

Emacs-on-Aqua: This is a Cocoa binding of Emacs, derived from the old
NeXT port of Emacs. It has a nice Aqua look and feel (unlike standard
Carbon Emacs). Its main drawback is that it's more than a full version
behind current Emacs (20.x, not 22.x). Development on it has just begun
again after being dormant for a couple of years (i.e. it was last
released for Jaguar).

Yaced (Yet Another Carbon Emacs Distribution, at
http://yaced.sourceforge.net): Pretty similar to Carbon Emacs Package
above, with some customizations geared to making it a good editing
environment for LaTeX. The maintainer, Norm Gall, also packages AucTeX.

Aquamacs, which I'm working on with David Reitter: This is a more
radical revision of Emacs: it overrides a lot of the standard Emacs
interface conventions, keyboard shortcuts, etc. and replaces them with
standard Aqua keymappings. i.e., Apple-C is the preferred method to copy
text. This is based on Carbon Emacs. I like the approach that Aquamacs
uses because I no longer have to choose between Emacs' power and
BBEdit/Textwrangler's ease of use.  If you prefer standard Emacs,
Aquamacs will probably drive you crazy.

There are probably other builds that I'm not aware of, but these are the
ones that seem to be most popular.

Let me know if you have other questions.

- --
Cheers,

Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
http://www.wordtech-software.com
http://www.kevin-walzer.com
http://www.smallbizmac.com.
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