I installed Mactex which is a bundled installation including texshop and other utilities (install from. emacs file in /Users/nick/ to give some better shading, spacing as defaults.
My Preferences.el file is available by clicking here.Ĭreate. For example, I wanted to make it so that if I pressed - it would move me one word to the right or left and I wanted emacs to open up requests for R help windows in a new emacs window. AquamacsEmacs (has more mac-friendly keystrokes - this is what I use)Ĭreate (or if it already exists, edit) the file ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el - in this file you can add commands that will customize the behavior of emacs to your liking.Carbon emacs package (more unix-user oriented).Should be able to install from apple's website or from the Installation/Restore disks that came with your computer. These are notes that I have scribbled down as I set up my Mac OS X machine for working in the Hopkins Biostat computing environment.