[Pythonmac-SIG] what's the plural of "Emacs"?

eichin@metacarta.com eichin at metacarta.com
Thu Jun 16 00:50:36 CEST 2005


> Apple only offers one emacs, the one that ships with Mac OS X, unless  

Which was great until tiger - the tiger version has painful
curses-related bugs, and since it only works inside a terminal (xterm,
Terminal.app) this is a problem.

> Emacsen?

Yes.  Debian uses the term specifically, in the "packaging that
applies to multiple emacsen" (common byte-compiling hooks and such.)

http://home.att.ne.jp/alpha/z123/emacs-mac-e.html

is the one I've been using, also built pretty closely from CVS (it
even thinks it is a 22.x emacs now :) and has cool things like
do-applescript.

There's also an emacs in fink, if you want one with terminal + X11
support instead of Carbon.


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