[OS X Emacs] various Aquamacs questions - init files and fonts

David Rogoff cs80 at therogoffs.com
Tue Jul 20 12:40:06 EDT 2010


Thanks for the info David.  I like Aquamacs, but since cross-platform 
consistency is my main issue, I think I should use emacs.app for now.

  David

David Reitter wrote:
> David,
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 4:56 AM, David Rogoff wrote:
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>> What other files does Aquamacs load on startup for customization?
>> Why isn't Aquamacs using files in the home directory or ~/.emacs.d ?
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> have you seen these?
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> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PreferencesInAquamacs
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsFAQ
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> Did you find the manual (Help menu)?
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>
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>>   Sometimes everything is in the nice, fixed-width font that also works on Linux. Other times, all my buffers are in different (usually proportional) fonts.
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> See FAQ.
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>>   I can't increase/decrease font size, either. If I try c-x, c-= or c-x,c-- I get
>> Wrong type arguement: listp, ((:height 1.2))
>> Doesn't Aquamacs support text-scale-adjust?
>>      
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> A-+ and A-- work for me.  The above should work, too, but it appears there's a bug in GNU Emacs 23.  Often Emacs bugs appear in Aquamacs, because Aquamacs is using non-default configurations not present in GNU Emacs (or Emacs APIs that are not used in GNU Emacs.)
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>> Should I just use the emacs from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS ?   What is Aquamacs getting me, other than some Mac keyboard bindings?
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> This list is not exhaustive:
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> http://aquamacs.org/features.shtml
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> You may also be interested in this:
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> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AquamacsEmacsCompatibilitySettings
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> Hope that helps.
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