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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. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsOQGJmdQs+6YVcoRAh6aAKCEpNAdyuJ/h9cjy+MhuLAVjrHWlQCdEAoH LrGOprXPdApArcDD6LTd5d4= =Lstc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
