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Installing emacs on macOS using brew

Which version?

On top of the standard emacs version, that support macOS. There's a friendly fork by Mitsuharu Yamamoto that add more macOS features that maybe disabled on the standard port for political reason: feature have been disabled in the past because they where not available on GNU based OSes.

Use Mitsuharu Yamamoto's macOS Emacs port

The easiest way is using this brew tap.

$ brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport

and then

$ brew install emacs-mac

if you using cask

brew cask install emacs-mac

To disable this tap, please:

$ brew untap railwaycat/emacsmacport

Using the standard version

Personally I prefer to stick with the standard version, not for political reason, but simply because it does what I need, and I like to have a more cross-platform friendly setup.

To install, the best option is to use brew and here, again, we've two options:

  • using plain vanilla brew
  • using brew cask system (that install prebuilt bynaries)

I prefer to not use brew cask, so that I can build emacs from the HEAD. Anyway, using brew cask is very easy:

brew cask install emacs

nothing more.

Using brew to install and setup emacs

To install emacs HEAD on macOS I use this commands:

brew install emacs --with-cocoa --HEAD
brew services start emacs
brew linkapps emacs

That's all, happy coding with emacs.