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The built in Emacs is languishing along side the built-in bash. It's GNU Emacs 22.1 from "2007 April 13" (according to the man page) which is going on 5 years old at this point. The current release of Emacs is 24.2. You can get a binary of it here: http://www.emacsformacosx.com/

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I already do this, even though I rarely use Emacs. Presumably those who work with it every day are far more hampered than me by a five-year-old installation. So my actual (rhetorical) question for Apple is whether there's a point to keeping around a version of Emacs so out of date that anyone using it would install their own copy anyway.

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