Follow the X-Windows style of copy on select, paste on middle-buttonĪquamacs is the most Mac like Emacs of the bunch.Likewise, text copied or cut in other applications can be pasted into Emacs using it’s yank (paste) commands. Are integrated with the system cut buffer if you copy, or kill (cut) text in using Emacs commands, it will be available to paste in other applications.Support common Command/Apple key bindings, so you can save files with Command-S instead of C-x C-s, open files with Command-O, cut and paste with Command-C and Command-V, and so on.(You may have only seen console versions of Emacs but it’s had a GUI for at least 15 years.) These native versions of Emacs do have a lot in common.
The EmacsWiki offers a lot of Mac Options, but it really boils down to three choices: Aquamacs, Carbon Emacs, and Emacs.App. And it’s possible to run X Windows versions of Emacs under OS X, but if that’s your thing, you don’t need my help setting it up. There also exists XEmacs, a major fork of GNU Emacs with Mac support but I’m not an XEmacs user. I’ve limited this to native OS X ports of GNU Emacs. Since I couldn’t find much in the way of comparisons, I thought I’d better review them myself. But the first question I need to answer is “Which Emacs to use?” There are a number of options, all with pluses and minuses. In the future I plan to look for Emacs equivalents for TextMate features I’ll miss. Not (just) to be cool, but because I can’t so much as type this post without trying to use Emacs key strokes that may not be there (curse you Wordpress for taking my Control-A!). So, I’m going to give Emacs on the Mac another shot.
#AQUAMACS FEATURES CODE#
TextMate has some nice features: a very usable project mode, code snippets, variable completion (Emacs has these as well, but that’s another post), and it’s what all of the cool kids were using. However, a year or so ago I started using TextMate as my day to day editor for development on the Mac.
I still use it just about everyday on servers I admin. I’ve been using Emacs for more than 20 years now.
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