I use Terminal-based Emacs exclusively. Couldn't stand all the "distractions" (bells and whistles) of Aquamacs. But, more importantly, with this mode I can use Emacs everywhere, including my servers over ssh, with exactly the same setup.
I bind Option to Meta in Terminal.app and that works very well.
I agree with Terminal emacs being available anywhere. I do miss the anti-aliased fonts that are available in Emacs.app, but I have to be able to start separate emacs processes for different projects.
Also instead of using cmd-c and cmd-v Mac key bindings, I do M-| (shell-command-on-region) to 'pbcopy' to copy the region to the OSX clipboard. It's a godsend.
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I use Terminal-based Emacs exclusively. Couldn't stand all the "distractions" (bells and whistles) of Aquamacs. But, more importantly, with this mode I can use Emacs everywhere, including my servers over ssh, with exactly the same setup.
I bind Option to Meta in Terminal.app and that works very well.
Terminal > Preferences > Settings > Keyboard > select the 'Use option as meta key' checkbox
I agree with Terminal emacs being available anywhere. I do miss the anti-aliased fonts that are available in Emacs.app, but I have to be able to start separate emacs processes for different projects.
Also instead of using cmd-c and cmd-v Mac key bindings, I do M-| (shell-command-on-region) to 'pbcopy' to copy the region to the OSX clipboard. It's a godsend.
But, but, but, if you use anti-aliased fonts in Terminal, you're all set in Emacs (as well as everything else).
(defun remove-distractions () (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth))
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work any more in cocoa emacs.
I don't believe it ever worked in Cocoa Emacs. It was a patch applied to the independently distributed Carbon Emacs.