macOS no longer ships with Emacs

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latexr · 5h ago

> I think it’s a great alternative to the likes of vi and nano

nano no longer ships with macOS either, and hasn’t for a few major versions. You can still see it in /usr/bin/nano, but when you run it or check the manual you’ll see it’s actually pico. A checksum confirms they’re the same.

  $ sha256sum /usr/bin/{nano,pico}

  876a9d04b6a5276552751d43fc4bc893d031f0591a96850792649e945d644dc1  /usr/bin/nano
  876a9d04b6a5276552751d43fc4bc893d031f0591a96850792649e945d644dc1  /usr/bin/pico

al_borland · 6h ago

I remember hearing about Apple removing emacs, but this is the first time I’m hearing of mg. Interesting, and nice that Apple included a little bridge for people used to emacs to do basic editing out of the box.

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macOS no longer ships with Emacs

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