Which method / version of emacs to install for orgmode use only?

• org-bullets

  5 674 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  utf-8 bullets for org-mode

You probably want something like this:https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets

• spacemacs

  63 23,511 9.2 Emacs Lisp

  A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

For Mac I’d propose https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs under the Mac OSX section. The direct link below. I personally use plus, but don’t think any of the choices there will be poor.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• homebrew-emacsmacport

  59 1,652 6.7 Ruby

  Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager

I definitely recommend railway’s Emacs port for someone starting with Emacs on macOS. It will look great without any configuration and will behave like a macOS app. Once you'll get more comfortable with Emacs and decide to customise it you could pick a different version (like emacs-plus) but then it will be more clear than to you what features you need/care about.

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