macOS Installation

Epsilon for macOS supports drag and drop installation. Simply open the downloaded disk image file and drag the Epsilon application inside to your Applications folder, or to the Applications alias. Epsilon supports macOS version 10.9 and later.

Epsilon for macOS runs as an X11 app when XQuartz is installed, and in console mode as a "Terminal" app when it isn't. Installing XQuartz from https://www.xquartz.org/ is highly recommended. It lets Epsilon display more colors, use font styles like bold and italic, recognize many more key combinations, and is also necessary if you want to edit files in folders like ~/Documents that receive privacy protection under macOS 10.15 Catalina and later. (See Epsilon for macOS and Privacy-protected Folders for more on macOS privacy contexts and Epsilon.)

Any time Epsilon documentation mentions the "Unix version" of Epsilon, this also includes the macOS version. Any time Epsilon documentation mentions Epsilon for X11, this includes Epsilon running under XQuartz (an X11 server). (For example, Epsilon for macOS running under XQuartz recognizes all the X11 flags described in the previous section, and all the X11 resource names documented there.)

Subtopics:

Epsilon for macOS Keyboard Issues
Epsilon for macOS Startup
Epsilon for macOS and Privacy-protected Folders

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