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GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. At the core of Emacs lies an Emacs Lisp interpreter, the language in which the majority of Emacs' built-in functionality and extensions are implemented. Also consider asking your question at emacs.stackexchange.com.

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How to use Cocoa Emacs as editor for Mutt

I'm taking yet another run at Emacs. I've installed Cocoa Emacs, and so far so good. Now I'd like to use Cocoa Emacs as my editor for Mutt. … When I've found anything about using emacs with Mutt it's always been a very complicated explanaition. Surely there is a simple way to get emacs to do this? Thanks, John V. …
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Cocoa emacs -- open in current space?

Unfortunately, cocoa emacs 24.1 (9.0), even when using emacsclient (I do a server start in my init.el file) always opens a document or email response in the space emacs was originally started in. … Aquamacs seems better behaved in this respect, but I prefer cocoa emacs. Is there a way to change this behavior? Best, JRV …
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Cocoa emacs -- open in current space?

preferences, uncheck the boxes for "when switching to an application..." and "group windows by application" If I am editing more than one doc, in different desktops I end up with more than one instance of emacs … It doesn't look like cocoa emacs is impemented as a document based cocoa app. Is that the case? Seems like Macvim handles the multiple document without multiple instance case more gracefully. …
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How to get a "modern" emacs that runs in a terminal on os x lion?

so far Mutt and Vim and emacs seemto work responsively enough for me. I've made a few tries at emacs before, but am essentially relearning it. Of course the emacs that comes with Lion is 22.1.1. … I installed the current emacs cocoa on my iMac, but it doesn't run in a terminal. Is there a terminal version of 24 precompiled for OS X? Or is compiling it straightforward? …
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