Showing posts with label osx. Show all posts
Showing posts with label osx. Show all posts

Sunday, February 05, 2012

Aquamacs vs. Emacs


Aquamacs does seem more natural than the standard Emacs.

I'm a new Mac user switching over from a PC and having emacs is a must. What Aquamacs does is make emacs more OSX oriented. While this can be confusing, especially if you are coming from Linux (like, I am) in general things seem ok.

The font is better for sure. More reviews to follow as I test things out.

Saturday, February 04, 2012

OSX Emacs Drag and Drop


By default, I find that drag and drop on OSX does not work in the same way that it would on Windows. On Windows, a new buffer is created. On OSX, the file is opened in the same buffer. Googling around gave me - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1850292/emacs-23-1-and-mac-os-x-problem-with-files-drag-and-drop.

Adding the following text worked fine -