[OS X Emacs] Re: Aquamacs Cursor movement and word wrapping: C-e, C-a, C-n, C-p

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Tom,

Early versions of emacs 23 on the mac had some problems that kept them  
from running spell check.  It worked, but took about a minute to find  
the next word.  The slow replace-string operations you see might be  
symptom of the problem.

The good news is that these problems have been fixed downstream from  
23.1.1.  I ended up compiling my own Gnu Emacs using the appropriate  
patch: ftp://ftp.math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/emacs/.  I've installed three of  
these so far.  All three get used all day and we haven't noticed any  
problems.  We have 23.1.95.

The compile requires a few things from macports and the developer  
toolkit, of course, because the mac doesn't come with gcc installed.   
I don't pay much attention to this, and don't really know what those  
cryptic library names mean, so can't be more specific.

HTH,
Tom





On Apr 25, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Tom Van Vleck wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:23 PM, David Reitter wrote:
>> Aquamacs != Emacs
>> Visual-line-mode != line-move-visual
>
> I tried Cocoa Emacs 23.1.1 on my Mac.
> It works OK for me on both Leopard and Snow Leopard.
>
> I will miss the Aquamacs tab bar, but I think
> everything else I need from an Emacs is there.
>
> I did notice some simple replace-string operations
> were extremely slow in 23.1 compared to Aquamacs 1.9.
>
> Thanks to David Reitter for all his hard work and care
> on Aquamacs.
>
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