I stopped reading at '"real" Emacs is typically installed via Homebrew at /usr/l...

ibrahima · on May 11, 2015

Err, to be fair the context was that OS X usually has a very outdated version of Emacs. (Don't have a Mac so dunno for sure if that's still the case or if the article is out of date.)

cenazoic · on May 11, 2015

On Yosemite 10.10.3, the emacs version is 22.1.1.

hatmatrix · on May 11, 2015

That's the emacs that comes with the BSD OS.

You can download and install 24.5-1 at http://emacsformacosx.com/ without having to use homebrew.

klibertp · on May 11, 2015

So it's really ancient: 22.1 was released in 2007.

rafadc · on May 11, 2015

I've installed through homebrew and the version says

GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1347.57) of 2015-04-13 on mymachine

e40 · on May 11, 2015

Yes the version @ http://emacsformacosx.com/ is much better.

samatman · on May 11, 2015

Gotta throw in a pitch for the Japanese Cocoa-native Emacs port: https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port

Running this with Spacemacs is... well, surprisingly pleasant. Unicode, pixel level scrolling, image support that isn't totally broken, it's...nice.

rafadc · on May 11, 2015

Why?

What is the difference between that and brew install emacs --cocoa?