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2016-07-31
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lmergen15:07:58

for the people that work under osx, what is the emacs build you use ? is aquaemacs anything ? or should i just run vanilla emacs ?

lmergen15:07:35

right, that’s pretty much the same as i get with brew install —with-cocoa —srgb emacs, right ?

radon15:07:20

"If you just want Emacs without any complications: Emacs for Mac OS X” — I personally haven’t had any problems with it.

lmergen15:07:54

right, yeah, i found that, i just wanted to hear other people’s rationale to use a specific version

bruceadams15:07:33

I use brew install emacs with some options (that I don’t remember 😦). My hope is that Homebrew will do a good enough job of keeping Emacs up to date, without my having to think about it.

lmergen16:07:53

yes that’s what i was thinking to do as well

lmergen16:07:12

and to keep my emacs environment as similar as possible to my non-osx desktops

radon16:07:46

That’s a valid point, but if you want to set up Emacs in the same way on non-OSX systems, you couldn’t use brew, right?

lmergen16:07:38

right, so that statement was mostly related to using vanilla emacs, rather than aquamacs or something

lmergen16:07:01

apparently osx is stealing my ctrl+up and ctrl+down etc keys

radon16:07:25

Are you using Emacs through the terminal, or through the GUI app?

radon16:07:51

Because if you’re going through the terminal, you’re going to have a whole mess of keybinding and colorscheme errors to sort through.

radon16:07:10

That’s not OSX specific, as far as I know.

lmergen16:07:31

nah, i’m using cocoa

radon16:07:46

Huh. What do ctrl+up and ctrl+down do?

lmergen16:07:20

they provide some kind of application switcher

lmergen16:07:33

it seems to be multi-desktop feature or something

radon16:07:37

Oh yeah, that’s just in System Preferences > Keyboard.

lmergen16:07:47

shortcuts probably

radon16:07:53

Extremely useful, by the way—couldn’t live without multiple desktops, but I use the trackpad gestures instead.

lmergen16:07:12

right, this is exactly my current dilemma 🙂

lmergen16:07:02

well let’s first disable it, get myself set up completely with osx, and then start experimenting with fancy stuff