Well I've done it now...

[hollyking]

I've begun the switch. Thanks to an excellent quarter I just ordered a 15" PowerBook G4. Apple's order page says it will ship in 1 to 3 days and will take from 1 to 5 days to arrive. So I can expect my new toy any time between tomorrow and Friday the 19th. Now I need to come up with a name. Any suggestions?

I know I need to pick up SubEthaEdit. What other killer Mac apps should I be sure to get?

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[istukan.livejournal.com]

In regards to mail, I take it you're downloading mail from some mail server and use mutt to read it? I think you might be able to set up a mail server on your server, have it fetch the mail for you, then offer IMAP service for you to use on your computer?

I can't remember if Perl came pre-installed with OS X... I think it did, but am not sure. Anyhow, I installed the Carbon Emacs and it works pretty well. There's also 'Emacs on Aqua' available for download from here (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/emacsonaqua.html). I wouldn't be surprised if Vim was better integrated with the OS, since Emacs by its nature resists integration :) As for TextMate, I have only one word for you: BLASPHEMY!

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Nope, I ssh into the server and use mutt to read it there. The plan is to convert the existing maildir folders into IMAP folders and then use that to process the mail on my local machine.

After a bit of checking Perl does indeed come installed on OS X. I need to get the developer kits and stuff, but they're already on the way so that's set.

Carbon Emacs is just the GNU source recompiled for OS X. Emacs on Aqua looks like they've gone farther with integrating the editor in the OS. However EoA is using the 20.7 source and I have quite a few extensions that expect version 21. So it sounds like Carbon Emacs is the winner.

[istukan.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. That shouldn't be too hard then, right? Though I have no idea how to do that :D What IMAP server are you using? If you haven't decided yet, check out Cyrus (http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/) :)

As for Perl, good to know. I've installed Developers Tools soon after installing the OS, so it all fused together into one event ;)

Yeah, I also had problems with the EoA (it was called differently, though, but I don't remember how exactly) working with SLIME (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/), so Carbon Emacs seemed like the best option then too. Maybe EoA will catch up with the current Emacs in near future...