GNU Emacs proper scrolls line-wise, which is very laggy and jumpy with trackpads. This was merged into GNU Emacs proper, and is part of Emacs 24.4. Core Text for text rendering, which improves text appearance and Unicode support.Note that GNU Emacs itself has native OS X support as well, but lacks the OS X specific additions, which this patch set provides. Emacs Mac PortĮmacs Mac Port is a patch set for GNU Emacs proper for better OS X integration. The other distributions are patched and forked variants of GNU Emacs.

This is the only distribution which you can create yourself in GNU Emacs proper by installing additional Emacs packages and adjusting your init.el accordingly. The choice of packages suggests that it's mostly targeted at statistician and researches, which would work through their data with R and ESS, and then publish a paper with Org or AUCTeX and LaTeX.įor other users, this distribution is probably of little value, since you'd need to install additional packages anyway, and might as well use GNU Emacs proper right away. For instance, you can install AUCTeX in GNU Emacs proper by simply typing M-x package-install RET auctex, and enabling it. With the notable exception of ESS, all of these packages are available through Emacs' package archives for installation in any Emacs. Emacs for OS X ModifiedĪccording to the website Emacs for OS X Modified is simply a standard build of GNU Emacs, based on the above, with some additional packages, and the necessary configuration to enable all of these packages. If you'd like to use these-the former is particularly important if you'd like to read your mail in Emacs-you need to get GNU Emacs from Homebrew. Note though, that these binaries lack support for some libraries, notably GNU TLS and ImageMagick. All of these builds are self-contained, which lets you safely try pretests and snapshots. The site provides builds of stable releases and pretests, as well as nightly snapshots.

It's roughly the same you'd get by compiling a GNU Emacs release tarball with. Emacs for Mac OS X provides OS X binaries of GNUĮmacs proper.

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