Emacs Mac Port

What is this?

This is "Mac port" addition to GNU Emacs 24. This provides a native GUI support for Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.10. Note that Emacs 23 and later already contain the official GUI support via the NS (Cocoa) port for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. So if it is good enough for you, then you don't need to try this.

IMPORTANT NOTE

If you find a bug, then please try to reproduce it with some official builds such as X11 or NS (Cocoa). If it turns out to be specific to the Mac port, then please report it to [email protected]. Otherwise (i.e., it is also reproducible with official ones), report it using M-x report-emacs-bug USING THE OFFICIAL BUILD as such.

Features

This build has many features, a great number of which are particularly helpful for Mac users. You can see the full list here.

Installation options

Download

Without clone and compile, just download from
https://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port/wiki/Downloads

Homebrew

If you'd like to install with Homebrew, please

$ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

and then

$ brew install emacs-mac

To disable this tap, please:

$ brew untap railwaycat/emacsmacport

Use the build script

Build a self-contained Emacs.app with build-emacs.app.sh

Build from the latest

1. Get the latest code from git repository

   If you are new here: $ git clone git://github.com/railwaycat/emacs-mac-port.git

   If you cloned this repository before: $ git pull

2. Follow the step h. i. j. in the build instructions

   You can SKIP step a. b. c. d. e. f. and g. because code in this repository was patched already.

Macports

Macports (the package manager) also have emacs-mac-port, with package name "emacs-mac-app". It's not maintained by me.

Useful links

• Switch meta and option key - https://gist.github.com/3498096

• An Emacs.app CLI starter, modified from Aquamacs - https://gist.github.com/4043945

Changelog

02/24/2015

• Emacs 24.4.90 with emacs-24.4.90-mac-5.4

01/29/2015

• Emacs 24.4 with emacs-24.4-mac-5.3

11/21/2014

• Emacs 24.4 with emacs-24.4-mac-5.2

11/04/2014

• Emacs 24.4 with emacs-24.4-mac-5.1

10/21/2014

• Emacs 24.4 with emacs-24.4-mac-5.0

04/02/2014

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.8

03/05/2014

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.7

12/31/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.6
• add a more modern looking icon, PR #37. (Thanks, @tpanum)

11/07/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.5
• clean up and convert README file to Markdown by @masondesu (Thanks, Mason Stewart)

10/27/2013

• PDF patch, mark as 4.4.1

10/25/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.4

09/24/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.3

05/13/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.2

04/13/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.1

03/14/2013

• Emacs 24.3 with emacs-24.3-mac-4.0

03/08/2013

• Emacs 24.3-rc1 with emacs-24.3-rc1-mac-3.94

02/18/2013

• merge emacs-mac.rb enhancement by @arnested (Thanks, Arne Jørgensen)

02/09/2013

• Emacs 24.2.93 with emacs-24.2.93-mac-3.93

01/12/2013

• Emacs 24.2.92 with emacs-24.2.92-mac-3.92

12/19/2012

• Emacs 24.2.91 with emacs-24.2.91-mac-3.91

11/25/2012

• Emacs 24.2.90 with emacs-24.2.90-mac-3.90
• high resolution toolbar icons
• toolbar-on patch

10/30/2012

• Emacs 24.2 with emacs-24.2-mac-3.3

08/27/2012

• Emacs 24.2 with emacs-24.2-mac-3.2

07/28/2012

• Emacs 24.1 with emacs-24.1-mac-3.1
• macfont patch for 10.8

05/24/2012

• fix emacs-mac.rb for homebrew

05/17/2012

• Emacs 24.0.97 with emacs-24.0.97-mac-2.93

04/27/2012

• Emacs 24.0.96 with emacs-24.0.96-mac-2.92

04/02/2012

• Emacs 24.0.95 with emacs-24.0.95-mac-2.91

03/10/2012

• Emacs 24.0.94 with emacs-24.0.94-mac-2.90
• HiDPI mode patch@03/05

01/31/2012

• Emacs 23.4 with emacs-23.4-mac-2.0

01/15/2012

• Emacs 23.3.90 with emacs-23.3.90-mac-1.9998

11/28/2011

• Emacs 23.3b with emacs-23.3b-mac-1.9997

10/27/2011

• Emacs 23.3a with emacs-23.3a-mac-1.9996

10/14/2011

• Emacs 23.3a with emacs-23.3a-mac-1.9995
• unerased-cursor.patch
• lion-toolbar.patch

08/28/2011

• Emacs 23.3a with emacs-23.3a-mac-1.9995

07/25/2011

• Emacs 23.3 with emacs-23.3-mac-1.9993
• svg64.patch
• add "build-emacs.app.sh"

03/23/2011

• Emacs 23.3 with emacs-23.3-mac-1.9992

03/08/2011

• Emacs 23 bzr with emacs-23.2.93-mac-1.9991

02/15/2011

• Emacs 23.2.94 with emacs-23.2.93-mac-1.9991

02/01/2011

• Emacs 23.2.93 with emacs-23.2.93-mac-1.9991

01/17/2011

• Emacs 23.2.92 with emacs-23.2.92-mac-1.9990

License

GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See COPYING for full details.