Which Emacs... for Mac OS X?... for Windows?... for Linux?

I've started programming Erlang code that's going into production (gulp!), but I'm still using TextMate in Mac OS X, Notepad++ in Windows 7, and GEdit in Ubuntu 10.04... (I use all three at work and at home).

Emacs is the IDE of choice for开发者_开发技巧 programming Erlang, and I'd like to use the same editor on all three platforms. I have an idea of how to configure Emacs for programming Erlang more intelligently, but there are many choices of Emacs for each platform and I'm overwhelmed...

• Which Emacs should I use for Mac?
• Which Emacs should I use for Windows?
• Which Emacs should I use for Linux?

Thanks!

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I use emacs23 from the gnu project(for all 3).

I decline to use Aquamacs or the other semi-standard systems, as I want to stay as "close to the metal" as possible. I also don't use UI widgets much. I decided to go with gnu emacs instead of xemacs due to the development pace; it seems that gnu emacs gets more active devepment these days, and emacswiki seems to focus on gnu emacs plugins.

For OSX; I recompile with --with-ns on ./configure and "make install" to build a .app file.

For Windows; I use the GNU binary

For Linux; I recompile from the latest released emacs.

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If you wish to be consistent cross-platform, then avoid Emacs variants which provide customisations not available in the others.

I'm not familiar with OSX options, but I would recommend that you use standard GNU Emacs (23.2.1 is the current release) on all three platforms.

NTEmacs is a very solid native version for Windows, or you can install the Cygwin package (along with Cygwin's X.org server).

In your init file you can then handle any system-specific config requirements you might have like this:

(when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
  (require 'my-win32))

And everything else should be consistent, no matter where you are.

I highly recommend putting your entire config (init file and any other supporting files/packages) into version control (I use github). This makes it trivial to keep your configuration consistent between all platforms, and enables you to update the config from any one of them.

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I write code in Emacs on all three, and I use a bunch of other software that's super-easy to install on Debian but a big pain to get working on Windows and Mac OS (and I never did get it entirely working everywhere). So I ended up installing Virtualbox, and running a virtual Debian, and Emacs inside that everywhere.

I won't claim that it's the best solution, especially if you can get your other software to work natively on Windows/Mac, but it is a solution that you might not have considered.

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On OSX I use this one: http://emacsformacosx.com/ it is the cocoa version and it work like a charm. And it is the standard gnu emacs

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Personally I avoid Aquamacs like the plague, if it was a better "Mac" style implementation of Emacs (ie. Prettier!) then I might consider it.

So a big +1 for Emacs.app (Cocoa emacs) http://emacsformacosx.com/

You can get yourself Tab bars, code folding, line-numbering etc (etc..etc) with the standard Emacs plus a few .el extensions.

I'd also recommend adding a (cond (eq system-name ...)) / (cond (eq system-type ...)) for machine/os specific settings in your .emacs config. That way you can keep a single config consistent on all your machines/platforms.

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On mac, I use Aquamacs. It is a OS X cocoa implementation of emacs 23 so you do not have to add additional software such as fink, homebrew, or a virtual machine, to run a copy of emacs. It still uses the .emacs file for loading all the modules, so you will not have compatibility issues between versions.