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The install section is out of date, at least for macos homebrew. The emacs-plus package on homebrew (https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus) is the best for macos.

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I use MacPorts, but I recall hearing the alternative Homebrew Emacs packages apply lots of patches onto the Emacs codebase itself and may cause stability issues. Users should be aware of this before deciding to use emacs-plus over the regular emacs package on Homebrew.

So rather than the install section being "out of date", I would say it is more conservative and may reduce the probability of users' first Emacs experience being buggy.

It has been my daily driver for a few years. I don't notice any instability. It appears to only apply 4 patches, includes lots of extra app icons, and the remainder is just setting sane default compile options.

Also it appears --cocoa is no longer a valid option even on the default HB emacs, so it is out of date anyway.

https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus/blob/maste...

Long time Emacs plus user here. It’s been solid. Great maintainer.

Lately been using it with native comp. Also solid.

Written about it a few times:

https://xenodium.com/emacs-plus-with-native-comp

https://xenodium.com/my-emacs-eye-candy

https://xenodium.com/no-emacs-frame-refocus-on-macos

How does that dist compare to https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport ?

From upgrading today from 28.2 to 29.1 on my Intel 2019 Macbook Pro on Ventura, the macport one you linked felt snappier and far less stuttery than emacs-plus installed with the --with-native-comp flag enabled.

The Yamamoto ("railwaycat") fork is far superior.

That fork doesn’t support running as daemon, does it?

It works for me on my M2 machine

I disagree! It's railwaycats emacs because of the SVG support, unless I'm out of date.

Does anybody know what would it be the best way to install emacs on Mac for NIX users?

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