Install and use an Aqua Emacs editor

Jan 19, '02 09:34:29AM

Contributed by: wdavies

First download Emacs on Aqua from SourceForge. I'd recommend getting the source and building (easy -> download, untar and cd into the directory and do a ./configure, make, make install. YMMV, try the prebuilt one first, and drop into the Applications folder (I had to build from source on a 10.1.2 TiBook).

Then, this is the cool part. In your shell profile, set an alias to:

emacs='/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs --insert'
Now type emacs myfilename on a command line and it will start it up like an Xemacs session :-) woohoo. Good news is that JDE also works fine with Emacs on Aqua.

- Winton (an old fashioned Unix for coding and Mac for Everything else kindofguy!)

[Editor's note: I tried building from source, and although the application compiled fine, it quit unexpectedly on launch, so I was unable to test the alias portion of the tip. I've been using Carbon Emacs which seems to work fine.]

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