Also, note that Emacs 24.4 (currently unreleased) will have improved full screen support and better color support (same effect as "brew install emacs --srgb"). I've been using the Emacs head (from a month ago) and it's been very stable for me.
For sane trackpad scrolling in vanilla Emacs I use this:
'(mouse-wheel-scroll-amount (quote (0.01)))
Re:Emacs, naked
by _telemachus on Thursday January 23, 2014 @01:15PM
(#7109934)
Thanks for the tip about railwaycat's fork. Note though that before you can run:
brew install emacs-mac
brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport
Thanks for these tips, I'm already using the railwaycat fork, and it is really good. I compiled it myself though, didn't know that I can get it via brew now. That is fantastic, as I'm still on 24.3.1 :)
Also, I didn't know about the wrap-while-keeping indentation, that's something I always wanted. Will try it out later. Thanks!
I think you need to "brew tap railwaycat/emacsmacport" first to install that.
I built it from scratch, only using Brew to install the necessary image format libraries, and that worked fine too.
Seconding the recommendation for the Railwaycat fork, which is excellent. I just wonder about how quickly it'll be integrated into the 24.4 codebase, once that version drops; I'm really looking forward to file change notification support, for example so that Emacs can autorevert my Dropbox-synchronized Org files when it sees that they've been synced.
* Emacs can wrap lines at word boundaries, while intelligently preserving/extending indentation (something like this: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8581161)
* If you're using emacs on the mac, it's worth taking a look at the railwaycat fork ("brew install emacs-mac"). Some improvements over vanilla emacs: Emoji (and other fun unicode) display works, fullscreen and maximize work better, scrolling with the trackpad works in a reasonable way.