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This is the best discussion of the different versions of emacs available for MacOS I've seen (including emacsformacos):

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/271/what-is-the-dif...

Short version: Lunaryorn: "I used to get them from Emacs for Mac OS X, but now I use Homebrew, because it supports more libraries, notably GNU TLS for encrypted network connections.

All in all: Use brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick :)"




Thanks for that! I went through this on my own quite some time ago and came to my own conclusion that GNU emacs is the one for me, especially since I do program on mac os x, Linux and Windows.

EDIT: Well, now that I've read that in full, I'm thinking of giving the author's conclusion a try:

> All in all: Use brew install emacs --HEAD --use-git-head --cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick :)


Heh - my 'short version' was inadvertently included in my top comment. I also use the brew install version.




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