Thinking about buying a macbook, does Emacs work well?

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  • homebrew-emacsmacport

    Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager

  • emacs-groundup

    • Yup no issues. I install using homebrew and run a daemon. Plug: emacs-groundup is easy to set up on both linux and macos.

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  • homebrew-emacs-plus

    Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager

  • emacs-builds

    Self-contained Emacs.app builds for macOS, with native-compilation support.

    • [2] https://github.com/jimeh/emacs-builds (doesn't currently have > M1 builds)

  • nixos-config

    Nix configuration for macOS / NixOS with starter templates, step-by-step guides, and more ✨ (by dustinlyons)

    • My configuration uses Nix.

  • exec-path-from-shell

    Make Emacs use the $PATH set up by the user's shell

    • I'm not a Mac user, but FWIW from what I've seen over time https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell is a must when using Emacs on a Mac. I don't know why this is, but I'm guessing there's something unusually difficult about setting up the desktop session environment when using OSX, and users end up needing to resort to this. Hopefully that helps if you run into environment issues.

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