Yay! Glad to see this rather than the Red Hat approach of continuing to support dead versions (yes, I know that enterprises value stability blah blah blah)

When I was at Apple, they discontinued bundling the command line version of emacs, and they sent a long internal email stating why. The stated reason was that any newer emacs would suffer from license incompatibility with macOS, and they didn't see the point of supporting a 10 year old version that the FSF doesn't even support when, if someone really wants emacs, it's just a `brew install emacs` away.

I can't say I disagree.

skybrian

This assumes brew works on your machine. It doesn’t on older Macs.

cmckn

As noted on the GNU emacs site[0], you can download prebuilt binaries here[1], if you really can’t be bothered with ‘make install’. Homebrew is hardly necessary (for most things.)

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html

[1]: https://emacsformacosx.com/

sigjuice

At least for me, homebrew emacs isn’t that useful. It is terminal-only.

jdminhbg

There are taps that build GUI Emacs via homebrew, that's what I use. In particular, I use this one: https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus