![]() Many find it to be more Mac-like than Emacs.app. If you are a Mac user new to Emacs, many people find Aquamacs to be a good choice. X11 Emacs is the “original” emacs running under X11 (installed by default in recent versions of Mac OS X) As of Emacs 23, Carbon Emacs has been deprecated in favor of Emacs.app. Note that Emacs.app, GNU Emacs/Cocoa, and GNU Emacs/nextstep refer to the same thing.Ĭarbon is the C language API (developed by Apple) that lets applications written under OS 9 (or earlier) run under OS X. Aquamacs and Emacs.app (which was merged into the official Emacs as of Emacs-23) both run under Cocoa. However, there are other Emacs distributions geared towards macOS that include GUI support as well as other features that may make it a more appropriate choice for some, if not most people.Ĭocoa is the Objective-C API (originally developed by NeXT) that is used for native OS X applications (included in Emacs 23.2). On macOS 10.15 Catalina and higher, mg (previously known as microGNUemacs) is still included. Versions of macOS prior to 10.15 Catalina include a copy of GNU Emacs 22 without GUI support compiled in and thus Emacs is automatically available on all but the most recent versions of macOS via the terminal. You can find precompiled versions of emacs and Emacs.app at. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.The official Emacs fully supports Mac OS X (along with GNU/Linux, Windows, DOS, and then some). I was mostly using emacs-mac in the past. Probably the popular options are: emacs-mac, emacs-plus, and emacs-head. Compiling Emacs in the absence of a configurable brew version.Simply copy it to the /Applications folder to use it. ![]() The Emacs.app App bundle should now be in the nextstep/ directory. # Build MacOS App bundle, `install` doesn’t actually install anything. -with-native-compilation - enable native compilation.-with-imagemagick - enable ImageMagick support. ![]() I’m not exactly sure what each meant but this combination seems to work on my machine: I configured my Emacs with the following options. If you need to have libxml2 first in your PATH, run:Įcho 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxml2/bin:$PATH"' > ~/.zshrcįor compilers to find libxml2 you may need to set:Įxport LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib"Įxport CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/libxml2/include"įor pkg-config to find libxml2 you may need to set:Įxport PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/libxml2/lib/pkgconfig" Compile ![]() Here are the steps: Install dependenciesįollow the post-installation instruction from libxml2 to fix the path and environment variables. It took me several tries to get it right but I think I documented everything. Also it’s quite a satisfying experience to be able to compile Emacs from source. 1 It’s pretty cool to try the latest features like the native compilation and the native emoji before the stable releases. Recently I started to compile the Emacs master branch from source for daily use instead of using one of the popular formulas on Homebrew.
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