After seeing @xenodium mention Emacs Plus as another Emacs-on-Mac build, I thought I'd give it a go (been using railwaycat for yonks).

Took a wee while to get it installed and built, pulled in a lot of stuff, which wasn't shocking given I finally went for nativecomp too, but after that it seemed to work like a drop-in replacement.

No title bar and rounded corners (install/build option) is nice too!

So far not seeing any issues.

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@davep @xenodium Seems like I'm late with viewing my timeline. Sorry about that. Looks great but how does it differ significantly from railwaycat so far? Anything new and fun or exciting? Or is it mostly the same?

@natharari @xenodium So far it feels mostly the same, which I sense is a good thing. The main advantage seems to be lots of build options and, of course, lots of support for which version to install too.

Finally got me to look at nativecomp.

The only difference I saw was it didn't sort an /Applications/Emacs.app by default (fairly sure railway does that) but that was a small matter of making a symlink; as the post-install text says.

@davep @xenodium Thanks. Sounds interesting. I have to manually link railwaycat with every update though for some reason so that sounds about the same. (Not sure why you don't but I have to). Also, railwaycat seems to update very slowly. Maybe twice a year or something.

@natharari @xenodium Hmm, maybe I *do* update the Application folder manually too and forget.

@davep @xenodium Yeah after every update, I have to make an alias and drop it into the Applications folder as well as drop it into the Alfred preferences so I can launch it with Alfred. It only takes about a minute to do though. Not exactly a deal breaker. 😀

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