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HIGhway to hell.

Building emacs22 on Mac OS X:
Speaking of the Dock, double-clicking the app icon after an instance is running, or kicking off a second one from the command-line, will cause multiple Emacs applications to appear in the Dock, as pictured below. Not very Mac-like of course: a proper Mac application would open a new window in the already-running instance.
Remember, kids, in any article about Emacs on OS X, even if it is the focus of the article, you must make some crack about Emacs's "lack of Daring Fireball HIG-cop" magic Mac-appness. Even though it basically kicks every other text editor's ass halfway to hell. Incidentally, how often do you 2click on the app icon when it's already running?

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God almighty. There have been working, useful Carbon Emacs builds for ... years and years and years.

Wankwankwank.

Emacs on OS X is not for mac users.

It's for emacs users. Period.

Make it all HIGgy and we will hate it for defying our expecations.

Ed, that's the very reason I stopped jumping into discussions where BBEdit was being touted as the alpha and omega of text editors. For people who require teh HIGgy with it, it's fine. But, Jeebus, this was an article about building Emacs on a Mac, fer chrissakes. I figured I didn't need the usual GUI scolding in that venue.

BBEdit's not the Alpha and Omega?

Do you know how many perfectly good hours I've lost figuring out how to write Applescript for BBEdit? Almost as much time as I lost making my .emacs work better. Factor in the time it took to figure out that turning off line numbers would make scrolling 20x faster, and I'd say I've spent more time tweaking BBEdit. And isn't that what tools are for? To lose all that otherwise productive time fine-tuning tools so we'll be extra productive?