#Magit for aquamacs install
#Magit for aquamacs software
#Magit for aquamacs mac

#Magit for aquamacs install

You can also install pre-built binaries via homebrew or downloaded from the web.

#Magit for aquamacs mac

For the first question, if you wanted to build your own, just got clone the repo from savannah, or Mitsuharu’s mac port from bitbucket, and follow the instructions therein. If you’re interested, this is a fine way to live (I lived this way myself for almost a decade until my battleship 2011 mbp finally died during the era of the terrible butterfly keyboards). That means that you can try out new features much faster than the slow release schedule, if you want.įor the mac, it’s not hard to go from “macOS with Xcode” to “using a self-built emacs”. On the other hand, the development head is also very usable - at least a couple decades of my own usage has been self-built from the most recent sources, and problems have been very, very rare. The releases are relatively rare, every year or two on the new “fast” schedule, and are supported for a long while.

#Magit for aquamacs software

The other question is: build your own latest and greatest, or use a stable package built by someone else? Emacs is a remarkably stable piece of software (seriously I’ve been using it for more than 30 years, and there are lots of people who’ve been using it longer). For pure functionality on current macOS, I think the mac port has a few niceties that are missing from the ns port, and the cost of being a bit behind the bleeding edge - which brings us to the other question. Both work well, and there are reasons to prefer both. There is also another version, more recent, that uses different low-level macOS toolkits/frameworks/primitives called the “mac port”. Emacs (Aquamacs) org-mode agendas are suddenly empty 1 Emacs tramp mode - filename auto complete doesnt work. One question is: which version of “make emacs work well under macOS” should I use? There’s a default version that comes with emacs for many years, that also works with GNUStep, thanks called the “ns port”. However I still use revbuffs whenever I do a rebase outside of emacs.This is kind of two questions, depending on your circumstances.

I've been using magit for a year now and can highly recommend it for dealing with git from within emacs. I will investigate magit a little more thoroughly though. (I haven't quite been using emacs long enough to make it my operating system). I'd kind of guessed that if I accessed git from within emacs, then it could probably be handled easier, but I currently prefer accessing git through the commandline.

I prefer revbuffs simply because of a, possibly irrational, feeling of wanting to be in control of what happens. Global-auto-revert mode would have been a perfectly fine solution, and I wish I could choose two answers. Kind of similar to Cmd-R in other Mac apps). (I mapped revbuffs to Cmd-R which works quite nicely. Certainly enough to stop me wanting to try and write anything new myself.

Well, I've found the revbuffs package to be pretty much what I need. PS I'm using Aquamacs on OSX if that matters. It should work immediately on MacOS with the current version of Emacs. The starter-kit includes up-to-date versions of Emacs Speaks Statistics, AucTeX, Magit, Markdown mode, Yasnippet, and assorted other useful bits and pieces. I'm fairly happy writing emacs-lisp if people can give me pointers on where to start. I've made some further tweaks and added some tools of particular use to social scientists. Secondly I'd like a command that reverted (without query) all my open buffers that have no unsaved changes, and queried me about those that do have unsaved changes.Īlternatively, I'd be open to suggestions about other solutions, ways of working, etc I could try. Often, when I switch branches in git, if the files are open in emacs, then emacs asks if I want to revert them (as it thinks they've changed on disk) even though the contents are identical.įirstly I'd like to find a way for emacs to not ask me about it at all if the contents on disk are identical to those in the buffer.