Emacs on MacOS X goodness

First, thanks to XCode 1.5's support for external editors, my desire to start writing some Mac software doesn't mean I have to learn YAE (yet another editor).

However, coercign Xcode to talk to a running X11 emacs using gnuserv seems to be tricky, so I'm investigating Aqua emacs. Apparently cvs builds of emacs can now generate a .dmg emacs installer for Aqua. My cvs tree is still downloading so we will see.

Since Applescript is still handy even on OSX, the emacs lisp functions to call applescript from within emacs may be useful (on Steve Wainstead's advogato blog).

Elsewhere on Steve's blog is an excellent lisp func that starts tailing a logfile in a new shell buffer and frame in one easy step (here).

Many more great tips here: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MacOSTweaks