[Gardeners] Slime and Emacs for Emacs-haters

Peter Herth herth at peter-herth.de
Tue Jan 3 04:05:34 CST 2006


On 1/3/06, pj at heslin.eclipse.co.uk <pj at heslin.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> There are also some differences: Aquamacs tries to make Emacs behave
> like a Mac application, so for example each file, help screen, etc. is
> opened in a separate window (or "frame" in Emacs parlance -- I found
> this most annoying, but then I'm not a Mac user).  I think it doesn't
> include any extra file-type specific packages, so I'm not surprised that
> the developer was not keen on including Slime.

There is a menu option to turn this off (which I very quickly did :)
And it is very easy to install slime with aquamacs - and looking at
the active slime development, I would recommend to check it out from
cvs and use it this way, rather using a prebuild package that does not
keep up to date.

Peter


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