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

Charles Hartman charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
Thu Jun 16 03:09:16 CEST 2005


I was wondering about the ones in
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
I see "Carbon Emacs", "Emacs on Aqua 8.0-rc3", "AquaMacs 0.9.1" . . .

Charles Hartman


On Jun 15, 2005, at 6:50 PM, eichin at metacarta.com wrote:

>> 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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