Carbon Emacs Package is a Mac-friendly distribution of the GNU Emacs text editor (v22). To install, simply drag the Emacs icon into the Applications folder or somewhere else you would like. This distribution is no longer updated, but I will leave it here as a record.

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• Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.14; Universal Binary
• License : Dual license of the GNU GPL (v3) and the GPL-compatible licenses. For details, take a look at the readme file.
• Source codes are available here (37.9MB).

• GPL = GNU General Public License
• LGPL = GNU Lesser General Public License
• mBSD = Modified BSD License
• (N) = Available via netinstall.

1. Can I install Emacs in any folder?

   As long as its path name is UNIX-friendly. Emacs does not start if the path name to the Emacs application contains accent characters (e.g."Développement") or double-byte characters. Also, some functions do not work if the path name contains white spaces (e.g."Carbon Emacs").

2. How do I uninstall Carbon Emacs Package?

   Drag the Emacs.app icon to the Trash. You can also remove the preference file ~/Library/Preferences/CarbonEmacsPackage.plist if it exists.

3. How to use Mac-style shortcut keys such as Command (⌘) + C to copy?

   Use mac-key-mode by adding (mac-key-mode 1) to your .emacs.el. You can also turn mac-key-mode on by choosing "Help > Carbon Emacs Package > Mac-Style Key Bindings" in the menu bar. Available shortcut keys are listed in the wiki page.

4. How to set up the window transparency?

   You can change the window opacity using the frame parameter "alpha" in your .emacs.el.

5. How to use Mac OS X native input method?

   Add (setq default-input-method "MacOSX") to your .emacs.el. In addition, (add-hook 'minibuffer-setup-hook 'mac-change-language-to-us) may be useful.

6. How to use the CJK fixed-width fontset?

   Then monaco/osaka 12pt fontset is available by the menu item. Check "Help > Carbon Emacs Package > CJK Fixed-width Fontset" in the menu bar, choose "Save Changes..." then restart emacs.

7. How to use the fontsets, provided by carbon-font.el?

   The carbon-font.el library provides additional 40 fontsets. See [macemacsjp-english 860] and [macemacsjp-english 862] on its usage.

8. How to launch emacs from Terminal.app?

   Try the following commands.

   $ open -a Emacs.app (filename)
   $ (Emacs.app)/Contents/MacOS/Emacs (filename)
   

9. How to launch multiple emacs processes?

   Launch (Emacs.app)/Contents/MacOS/Emacs many times. If you launched multiple instances, you may get warning messages.

   $ (Emacs.app)/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &
   $ (Emacs.app)/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &
   

10. On OSX 10.9 (Mavericks), the default directory is unexpectedly set to "/" on startup.

    Add the following line to your .emacs.el.

    (if (string= default-directory "/") (cd "~/"))
    

11. How to paste plain text, without unexpected text properties?

    Add the following line to your .emacs.el.

    (setq yank-excluded-properties t)
    

12. How to use aspell?

    The aspell command is included in the application bundle and it is ready to use. If you would like to use your own aspell instead of built-in one, remove the file builtin-aspell.el in the site-start directory. The site-start directory Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/site-lisp/site-start.d/ can be found by choosing "Help > Carbon Emacs Package > Open Site-Start Directory" in the menu bar.

13. How to use ESS?

    Add the following line to your .emacs.el.

    (require 'ess-site)
    

14. How to use nxhtml?

    Add the following line to your .emacs.el. To use advanced completion, use control+return key. Command+tab is used by Mac OS X.

    (load-library "autostart")
    

15. How to use html-helper-mode?

    Add the following line to your .emacs.el.

    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.html\\'" . html-helper-mode))
    

16. The items in the Net-Install menu ("Help > Carbon Emacs Package > Net-Install") do not work.

    This feature has been disabled, since 15 January 2013.

More FAQ entries are found on the EmacsWiki. You can even add new entries or update existing entry in the wiki page!

2010-01-15

• The FINAL release.
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated ess, haskell-mode, htmlize, mew, nxhtml, psvn, and riece.
  • Fixed a broken link to the nxml-mode documentation. (Courtesy of T. Gerdin)
  • Fixed a broken link to the emacs-muse documentation. (Courtesy of P. Minsenti)
  • Added js.el (Emacs 23; a.k.a. espresso-mode).
  • Fixed nxhtml's initialization problem. (Courtesy of Mr. zin)
• Thank you for donations! (from 18 users)

2009-07-25

• Portable mode was obsoleted.
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated ess, imaxima, mac-key-mode, mew, nxhtml, psvn, python-mode, quack, riece, ruby-mode, and yaml-mode.
  • Redo.el was replaced by redo+.el (Courtesy of Y. Ohmae)
  • Fixed a toolbar in AUCTeX.
• Thank you for donations! (from 7 users)

2009-01-11

• Based on Emacs 22.3 (CVS 2009-01-01)
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated ess, howm, imaxima, mew, nxhtml, psvn, python-mode, and ruby-mode.
  • Wanderlust is no longer maintained.
• Transparency syntax has been slightly modified so that it is compatible with emacs 23.
• Thank you for donations! (from 18 users)

2008-11-01

• Based on Emacs 22.3 (CVS 2008-10-24)
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated ess, mac-key-mode, mew, nxhtml, psvn, and ruby-mode.
  • New net-installer packages: aspell Brazilian Portuguese dictionary and BBDB (Courtesy of L. Oliveira and Mahn-Soo Choi)
  • Moved navi2ch and slime to the Net-install menu (Courtesy of 774)
  • Removed ac-mode, icicles, mmm-mode, and xdvi-search.
• Added checksum feature to the netinstaller.
• The emacsclient was broken on ppc in the last release. It's fixed now. (Courtesy of M. Czepiel)
• Thank you for donations! (from 8 users)

2008-07-18

• Based on Emacs 22.2.50 (CVS 2008-07-01)
• Inline input-method patch 20080629. (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• Updated mac-functions patch (Courtesy of D. Reitter)
• New patch: PNG graphics support in the toolbar (Courtesy of D. Reitter)
• Updated Mac-Style Key Bindings (mac-key-mode):
  • Added shortcut keys.
  • SPC key displays the Quick Look information in dired.
• Updated ess, howm, icicles, imaxima, mew, navi2ch, nxhtml, psvn, riece, ruby-mode, and smart-dnd.
• Compatibility with X Window (GTK) version:
  • GNOME icons in the tool bar.
  • The frame parameter 'fullscreen controlls the full-screen mode. The function mac-toggle-max-window is deprecated. Note that there is a display coordinate bug; [carbon-emacs:962]. (Courtesy of V. Ljosa)
• Thank you for donations! (from 9 users)

2008-04-18

• Based on Emacs 22.2.
• Modified Japanese configurations
• New function: mac-toggle-max-window (Courtesy of J. Stanley)
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated auctex, carbon-font, emacs-muse, emacs-rails, icicles, mew, nxhtml, psvn and ruby-mode.
  • Platform independent elisp files are pre-packaged.
  • Fixed a runtime problem in haskell-mode (Courtesy of chrycheng)
  • Restored session.el.
  • Fixed an installation problem of aspell dictionaries (Courtesy of J. Elizondo)
  • Replaced ruby-mode (Courtesy of N. Nakada and A. Greif)
• Compatibility with Emacs 23:
  • Updated icons (Courtesy of K. Ohkouchi)
  • Changed the frame opacity setting: removed M-x set-alpha function.
• Fixed a PPC binary problem in the 2008-04-02 release (Courtesy of P. Dyballa)
• Thank you for donations! (from 8 users)

2008-01-20

• Based on Emacs 22.1.50 (CVS 2008-01-18)
• Updated auctex, elscreen, haskell-mode, howm, icicles, imaxima, lua-mode, mew, psvn and ruby-mode.
• Dropped emacs-w3m.
• Mac-key-mode emulates Shift + click key. (Courtesy of D. Peck)
• Updated icons (Courtesy of K. Ohkouchi)
• Revised the "Help > Carbon Emacs Package" menu
• Improved performance by GCC's optimization (Courtesy of T. Yamamoto)
• Thank you for donations! (from 8 users)

2007-11-06

• Based on Emacs 22.1.50 (CVS 2007-10-21)
• Inline input-method patch 1.0.3. (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• Updated Mac-Style Key Bindings (mac-key-mode):
  • ⌘ shortcut keys appear to the right of items in the menu bar.
  • Control + click shows contextual menu.
  • Integrated with Spotlight / Google / Dictionary.app / Text-to-Speech.
• Updated Mac-Style Print Dialog (mac-print-mode):
  • Added a new variable mac-print-font-size. The detault value is 10 [pts]. (Courtesy of J. Maindonald)
  • "PostScript Print Buffer/Region (B+W)" menus print the buffer/region in black and white.
• Elisp libraries:
  • Updated emacs-muse, emacs-rails, ess, fixed-width-fontset, icicles, imaxima, lua-mode, mew, psvn and quack.
  • Cedet is available via netinstall.
  • Removed lookup and SmartActivate.
  • Elscreen was broken in the previous release. It is fixed now. (Courtesy of Mr. numb)
• Removed (Emacs.app)/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs. (Courtesy of A. Johansson)
• Transparency syntax has been revised. The alpha value can be specified by a floating point number (0.0-1.0) as well as an integer (0-100).
• Thank you for donations! (from 8 users)

2007-06-23

• Based on Emacs 22.1.
• Updated emacs-muse, emacs-rails, ess, icicles, imaxima, mac-key-mode, psvn, riece and coral.
• Added lua-mode, nxhtml and quack. (Courtesy of J. Whitehead and F. Maggi)
• Fixed a bug when invoking slime. (Courtesy of M. Texaner)
• Japanese words were found in English info files. Now they are fixed. (Courtesy of J. Wilkinson)
• Mac-key-mode no longer calls pc-selection-mode.
• "Print Background" option in Mac-style print dialog works. (Courtesy of M. Kinoshita)
• Wanderlust is now available via netinstall.
• Thank you for donations! (from 10 users)

2007-04-09

• Based on Emacs 22.0.97 (CVS 2007-04-08)
• Added ELScreen and icicles. (Courtesy of F. Maggi)
• Updated emacs-rails, haskell-mode, lookup, psgml and psvn.
• Modified the temporal directory name. (Courtesy of R. Arai)
• Emacs-w3m is now available via netinstall.
• Updated icons (Courtesy of K. Ohkouchi)
• Fixed a bug in smart-dnd (Courtesy of T. Kjosmoen)
• Thank you for donations! (from 10 users)

2007-03-16

• based on Emacs 22.0.95 (CVS 2007-03-15)
• inline input-method patch 20070310. (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• transparency patch v3.0. (Courtesy of T. Hiromatsu)
• Updated apel, emacs-rails, psvn, riece, ruby-mode and yaml-mode.
• Fixed a bug when installing aspell international dictionaries (Courtesy of J. Elizondo)
• Fixed a bug when opening a file with Command(⌘) + O key (Courtesy of S. Aplin)
• Thank you for donations! (from 4 users)

2007-01-21

• based on Emacs 22.0.92 (CVS 2007-01-19)
• transparency patch 20070116. Note that elisp syntax has been changed. (See [macemacsjp-english 824]; Courtesy of Meadow project, Y. Nakayama, and T. Hiromatsu)
• inline input-method patch 20061116 (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• Elisp libraries
  • updated AUCTeX, aspell, emacs-rails, fixed-width-fontset, htmlize, imaxima, mac-key-mode, mew, psvn, ruby-mode, smart-compile, smart-dnd and yatex (Courtesy of T. Hiromatsu and K. Ohkouchi)
  • emacs-wiki was replaced by emacs-muse (Courtesy of T. Hiromatsu)
  • added elib
  • aspell French/German/Italian/Russian/Spanish dictionaries are available via netinstall (Courtesy of J. Elizondo)
  • restored the built-in aspell program on powerpc macs, which was broken in the 2007-01-06 build. (Courtesy of T. Kobayashi and A. Padua)
• added document icons (Courtesy of K. Ohkouchi and T. Yamamoto)
• better path quotation (Courtesy of T. Krennwallner)
• removed the "Help > Carbon Emacs Package > OSX Native Input Method" option from the menu bar.
• added /usr/texbin to the default search path (Courtesy of L. Stirton)
• Thank you for donations! (from 7 users)

2006-11-01

• based on Emacs 22.0.90 (CVS 2006-10-28)
• transparency patch 20060921 (Courtesy of R. Yoshitake)
• updated color-theme, emacs-rails, emacs-wiki, ess, imaxima, mew, psvn, riece, ruby-mode and xdvi-search
• Mac-style print dialog is activated by default. To turn off, choose "Help > Carbon Emacs Package > Mac-Style Print Dialog" in the menu bar, "Save Changes..." and then restart emacs.
• Thank you for donation!

2006-09-01

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2006-08-18)
• inline input-method patch 20060628 (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• updated mew, po-mode, psvn and smart-compile
• added yaml-mode
• lookup, navi2ch and riece are available via netinstall (Courtesy of R. Arai)
• removed quack.el
• modified japanese configuration
• revised "Help > Carbon Emacs Package" menu
• Thank you for donations! (from 2 users)

2006-06-16

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2006-06-07)
• inline input-method patch 20060603 (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• updated AUCTeX, ess, htmlize, imaxima, mew, riece, slime
• added emacs-rails and psvn
• removed goby
• Portable mode has been changed. For details, see the documentation of variable carbon-emacs-package-portable-mode
• revised Makefile for Panther-compatibility (Courtesy of E. Honjoh)
• added an menu item to toggle the OSX native input method (Courtesy of Marcus Geiger)
• Thank you for donations! (from 4 users)

2006-03-25

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2006-03-22)
• inline input-method patch 20060319 (Courtesy of T. Hashimoto)
• new patch: fix-title-bar.patch for better window-resizing (Courtesy of K. Yamamoto)
• Universal Binary (Courtesy of T. Kobayashi and S. Aikawa)
• updated mac-key-mode:
  • "Show In Finder" brings one Finder window to the front (Courtesy of T. Kurita's SmartActivate)
  • more friendly with CJK filenames (Courtesy of N. Ando and E. Honjoh)
• Cocoa print dialog (Courtesy of M. Kinoshita)
• elisp packages
  • updated AUCTeX, emacs-wiki, ess, flim, imaxima, mac-key-mode, ruby-mode, smart-compile
  • mac-drag-N-drop is replaced by smart-dnd
  • goby and howm are available via netinstall
  • removed crontab-ode, htmlize-view, pdf-preview, mac-preview-mode, SKK, YC and aspell6 german dictionary
  • removed files in the obsolete directory
  • In the previous versions, aspell was linked to libraries in /usr/local. It's fixed now. (Courtesy of T. Kobayashi)
• New application icon for OS X (Courtesy of K. Ohkouchi)
• New graphics image for the disk image folder (Courtesy of Y. Murakoshi)
• New item "Set..." is added to the Window Opacity menu in the menu bar (Courtesy of Luis Fernandes)
• faster startup when "CJK Fixed-Width Fontset" setting is on
• Thank you for donations! (from 7 users)

2005-12-11

• optimized for G4/G5 processors
• updated ess, htmlize, php-mode, python-mode, riece, mac-key-mode, fixed-width-fontset and yatex
• added htmlize-view
• mac-key-mode: added "Preview In Browser" to the file menu
• removed navi2ch
• improved CJK fontsets (now optional)
• fixed a utf-8m bug in nxml-mode (Courtesy of E. Honjoh)
• Thank you for donation!

2005-11-17

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-11-10)
• fixed the commandp bug
• updated aspell, haskell-mode, howm, htmlize, imaxima, xdvi-search
• added SLIME (Courtesy of S. Ionescu)
• re-configured howm's data directory (Courtesy of E. Honjoh)
• improved inline input-method support (Courtesy of E. Honjoh)
• Japanese configurations will be ignored on non-Japanese Mac OS environments (Courtesy of S. Wakimoto)

2005-10-10

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-10-09)
• updated AUCTeX, mac-preview-mode, ruby-mode, yatex, skk (net-install packages)
• removed c-sig
• Thank you for donation!

2005-09-27

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-09-27)
• added mmm-mode, nxml-mode, python-mode
• updated crontab-mode, ess, howm, imaxima, mew, riece, utf-8m
• removed mac-utf and mule-ucs
• utf-8m supports Korean Hangul characters without help from mule-ucs
• better dialog box. Carbon Emacs uses Carbon dialog instead of AppleScript dialog.
• toolbar button toggles the tool-bar-mode (Courtesy of D. Reitter's tool-bar patch)

2005-08-07

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-08-06)
• mule-ucs is turned off by default
• added howm, emacs-wiki

2005-07-30

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-07-29)
• added aspell german dictionary
• added emacs-wiki, howm, po-mode
• added M-x mac-show-menu-bar, M-x mac-hide-menu-bar
• scalable fontsets ([macemacsjp-english 137])
• updated aspell, carbon-font, mac-key-mode, ruby-mode
• removed eblook, eb library, keisen.el, mac-im-keycode-map-for-jiskb.el
• added options to use Mule-UCS, Carbon-font in the Help menu in the menu bar

2005-06-07

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-06-07)
• yet another transparency patch from R. Yoshitake
• added pdf-preview

2005-05-19

• updated for MacOS X 10.4.1
• CVS 20050515
• added riece
• removed migemo

2005-05-07

• ready for Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger
• emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-05-01)
• new inline input-method patch applied (Courtesy of Hashimoto-san)
• transparency patch v0.2.1 applied (Courtesy of Hiromatsu-san)
• removed hide_menubar patch, SKK, physical-line-mode
• updated aspell (0.50 => 0.60)
• added xdvi-search (Thank to Peter Cholak)
• added mac-preview-mode
• revised "Help > Carbon Emacs Package" menu
  • The user can save his or her settings by choosing "Save Options...". The settings are saved in the preference file: ~/Library/Preferences/CarbonEmacsPackage.plist.
  • howm and SKK are avilable via "net-install"
• The file-name-coding-system is set to utf-8 with accent-character modifications.

2005-04-12

• based on Emacs 22.0.50 (CVS 2005-03-27)
• support for accent characters in filenames (such as "é")

Previous records (September 2003 - March 2005) are only avilable in Japanese.

• Carbon Emacs Users Group

  Our official mailing list, hosted by Google Groups.

• Carbon Emacs Package for Panther

  A compatible build for Mac OS 10.3.9. Contributed by E. Honjoh.