On 2 Oct 2013, at 23:17, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: It's available packaged pretty much everywhere, but building it from source borders on the trivial. It builds on most every reasonable platform out there, and some that aren't so reasonable. This has been the case for decades. On that note, for any fellow OS X users here, I highly recommend Aquamacs - it's the COCOAized (== OS X UI) version of Emacs, comes with pretty much everything a normal emacs build comes with (including EDT emulation as I discovered 10 minutes ago). It's free of course: http://aquamacs.org (I'm not involved in the project or anything, just REALLY like editor)