Aquamacs has a built-in support for LaTeX/ Tex and a rich ecosystem with many third-party packages. It features better keybinding, drag/ drop functionality and clipboard integration. For instance, Aquamacs features several kinds of search and replace: it can replace text incrementally, it can search and replace text by complex patterns of characters (regular expressions) and not just by word matching, and so on.
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NOTE: Spend some time reading that blog entry which will show you how to build out projects with ease, create proper Erlang releases, and easily install various published Erlang applications including your own. R extension that is opened with aquamacs will automatically have syntax highlighting AND will allow you to. Though, Emacs is built for GNU Linux, Aquamacs is built for macOS and offers seamless integration with the system. Aquamacs features text editing capabilities that go far beyond the average text editor. Follow this guide to setting up Homebrew which will be used to install Erlang and the the Erlware tools Faxien and Sinan: Unlike all of the above, it’s not based on GNU Emacs, but has an independent source tree. Aquamacs is a heavily patched fork of GNU Emacs. You can use MacPorts to install Erlang, but Homebrew is an incredible replacement to MacPorts so I'm going to recommend that you try it out. Also, if I remember correctly, the author of this patchset has shown little interest to bring the features back upstream, probably for the former reason. This is purely a personal preference, and I have found that I *really* like Aquamacs 2.0 that was recently released - switched from Aquamacs to Emacs for OS X, then 2.0 came out and switched back.
Download Aquamacs from -or- Emacs for Mac OS X from.