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By David Caldwell

GNU Emacs text editor.

Pure Emacs. No extras, no nonsense.

Emacs

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Release: August 25, 2020

Latest update: February 29, 2024

Version: 27.1

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System: Mac OS X

Additional Requirements

macOS Mojave
macOS High Sierra
macOS Sierra
OS X El Capitan
OS X Yosemite
OS X Mavericks
OS X Mountain Lion
OS X Lion
OS X Snow Leopard

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User Reviews

3.7/5

26 User Votes

Excellent native Cocoa Emacs
mlm--2008April 11, 2008
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I have been using Emacs heavily since the mid-1980's on various platforms, and I still hack elisp extensively. Because everything I would run in X11 these days has been ported to native Cocoa versions I no longer run X11 on my Mac. I've tried other Emacs ports but I always come back to this one, and have been using it and its predecessors for years. It is an excellent port that is true to standard Emacs. It does not insist on intrusive UI interfaces or limitations, but it does provide UI conveniences if you want them. It behaves well as an OS X application. It includes a well thought out selection of libraries in its site-lisp. It is fast and completely stable. It's got some extra libraries to do Mac things -- even execute AppleScript code. I greatly appreciate the work that has gone into fitting this port into OS X and continuing to improve it.
steventammNovember 29, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It seems like updates of the system software could overwrite the /usr/bin/emacs script. The script that was used to generate this package defaults to /usr/local,
ingenueNovember 28, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Emacs is the best editor. PERIOD. I use it for reading usenet news, TeXing and coding XML stuff.
fudgey--2008November 28, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />In the never ending quest to make things as complicated as possible, programmers come up with a language to write a language which itself can't
cgtyoderNovember 16, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Installs into /usr/bin/, which overwrites the OS X-bundled emacs. Very bad (even if you can restore)!
mgdogNovember 16, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Works fine for me on 10.2.2, both GUI and terminal. I've got it customed with different fonts, color highlighting, customized commands, etc.
steventammNovember 13, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Apple made an incompatible change between 10.2.1 and 10.2.2. Binaries are mutually exclusive. Sorry. This was also true between 10.1 and 10.2, but there was
GeneTNovember 13, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Fails with bus error for me too. OS X 10.2.1.
Edwin-schemerOctober 26, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />You can also configure and compile xemacs-21.4.9, which runs fine in a terminal (no need to invoke with -nw flag) and even nicer (with color-coded
MacOSXInfoOctober 26, 2002
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />New version of Emacs MUCH improved over the version installed by 10.2. If you want to be able to launch Emacs by just typing "emacs"