[itistoday]

I spent a while today trying to decide what I like better, Cocoa Emacs or Aquamacs, and I eventually decided upon Aquamacs.

I found that Cocoa Emacs is faster to setup and get running, but once you have Aquamacs behaving the way you want it the extra features really are worth it. For me, tab support and the ability to re-open windows & frames from the last session seals the deal.

One oddity that I struggled at first with was how to get it to load ~/.emacs.d/init.el. I eventually solved this by loading it from: ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el

[tjpick]

the thing that made me switch from aquamacs to cocoa emacs was that cocoa emacs acts more like the emacs on other platforms (ubuntu, bsd, windows). I liked aquamacs though, if I used exclusively osx I'd probably use aquamacs.