Emacs for PowerPC

Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mottola at libero.it
Wed Apr 30 08:11:02 UTC 2025


Hi,

michele.bert at posteo.net wrote:
> Anyone here using an Emacs instance on a PPC-Mac?
>
> I would like to install it on my iBook G4 running Tiger, and since it
> will take quite a long time to compile it, I appreciate if anyone can
> point me directly to a working version, instead of trying several by
> myself. 

I suppose you ask about "Aqua Emacs", Quartz, not X11.

Tiger is very old, I don't know what version you can run there. MacPorts 
also dropped support for it recently.

But even on Leopard, I don't know what version you could pin. "Working 
on it". I think I started having success on 10.6 and only get a decent 
emacs on 10.7.

I'd like too to have the "last version" of Emacs and Vim for 10.5 and 
10.6, because they are essential tools.

Riccardo


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