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: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:21:26 -0500
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 14:45, Chris Jones
<email@hidden> wrote:
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.
I have both Aquamacs and MacPorts emacs installed, and use both when appropriate…
For what it's worth, I have MacPorts' emacs-app installed. I can't do the remote window thing, but I actually don't like that very much because it's pretty much the slowest possible way to do things across machines. Most of the time I'll run a local emacs and use tramp to edit a remote file, or if I really need to get at a buffer living in a remote emacs I'll ssh in and use emacsclient -nw (much faster than chatty X11 protocol).
To the person suggesting additions to aquamacs for remote files: it already supports tramp, the successor to ange-ftp, so you already have an emacs-based remote file editor *and* browser (Dired works transparently via tramp).
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brandon s allbery
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