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Not an official release, and nothing special

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Contributed by: davids-world.com Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 10:53 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

Sorry but this doesn't really add value. This is FSF's Carbon Emacs and just a binary distribution of it. We don't need yet another one of these.

Besides, there's no official release yet of the new version - what we get here is a mere development snapshot with all sorts of issues.

For a real Emacs distro that provides a good, Mac-like user interface and that works on OS X 10.3 as well as 10.4, check out AquaMacs. Or look for 'yaced', which is also a well-maintained port that works on Tiger.

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Not an official release, and nothing special - prell

I compiled a standard GNU Emacs with Carbon enabled. No other binary Emacs distribution runs correctly in Tiger, so I compiled this. If you don't like it, don't use it, but please don't say I did something I didn't do.

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Thursday, May 05 2005 @ 11:49 AM PDT

Not an official release, and nothing special - davids-world.com

LIke I said - the latest versions of both AquaMacs and yaced run on Tiger.

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Friday, May 06 2005 @ 02:45 AM PDT

Not an official release, and nothing special - Dana Nau

Apparently your concept of what it means to "add value" is pretty different from mine. I prefer an emacs implementation that doesn't break any of the emacs-standard keybindings and macro files. As I discovered the hard way, Aquamacs breaks both.

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Saturday, July 16 2005 @ 12:14 PM PDT

Not an official release, and nothing special - tlwalton_dotmac

on the subject of 'didn't need another one of these' -- I looked at AquaMacs until I saw that part its claim to fame was re-mapping standard emacs command sequences.

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Saturday, May 21 2005 @ 07:59 AM PDT