[Mac-emacs-users] Emacs mode question from soon to be mac-emacs user

[John S. <bei...@ya...>]

I have not used mac-emacs or mac ever, I'm a unix guy
with a love of emacs.  I'm about to buy a laptop, and
now that OSX is based on unix, I would love to give it
a try.  So I ventured to the local CompUSA to play
with the G4 powerbook.  The first thing I did was to
open a shell and run emacs. To my surprise it ran in
terminal mode, like running it on solaris when the
DISPLAY variable is not set.  I assume emacs also runs
in it's own window in a "gui-mode".

Is this true?

Sorry for the newbie question, but emacs is a MUST
before I buy any computer.

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