Re: openings emacs in its own window in X11
Re: openings emacs in its own window in X11
- Subject: Re: openings emacs in its own window in X11
- From: Tim Jenness <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:40:18 -1000
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Chris Jones <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25 Feb 2012, at 6:56pm, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> I'd actually recommend using Aquamacs since you end up with a native
>> cocoa emacs and don't need to worry about X11.
>
> Yes, Aquamacs is nice, but it has its pros and cons. pros are its a native Cocoa app, so fits in nicely with the rest of your OSX desktop (not that X11 doesn't do its best, but you know what I mean…). cons though are you cannot start it (easily) from the command line. You also cannot log in remotely via ssh to another OS X machine and export the window back, which you can with an X11 version.
>
Regarding the command-line, aquamacs works fine with emacsclient so
I'm always loading in files from the command-line and it works great
(you just have to have started it up prior to that but you can also do
that from the keyboard with an app like Arthur or even using the open
command.
But yes, you can't run up emacs remotely using aquamacs.
--
Tim Jenness
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