Which emacs should I install?

[sw2wolf]

I am a VIM user. Now I want to taste emacs.

>ls /usr/ports/editors/emac*
emacs-devel/ emacs-nox11/ emacs.app/   emacs/       emacs21/     emacs22/

Which version should I install?

 

[kpa]

editors/emacs or editors/emacs-nox11 if you don't need the X11 graphics support.

 

[jrm@]

Another option is editors/emacs-devel (emacs 24). It's stable and has lots of nice improvements. Here is a summary of what's new in emacs 24.

One downside to installing the latest version is that many of the emacs-related ports such as print/auctex only work with editors/emacs or earlier versions.

 

[sw2wolf]

I will install editors/emacs, thanks!

 

[purgatori]

When are libraries in the ports tree going to be built against Emacs-24 instead of 23? After all, 24 is the current stable version.

 

[jrm@]

There is a thread started by the maintainer on the ports mailing list. He says he's about ready to move editors/emacs from 23.1 to 24.1.

 

[ko]

editors/emacs is better ^_^