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I also tried Emacs.app and Aquamacs. Aquamac's behavior was totally odd & didn't match any of the documentation. I found the Cocca Emacs.app to be much easier to set up and get running. That said, neither of them feel as good as MacVim, as far as native Mac apps go.

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I used the following version of Emacs back when I had a Mac.

http://emacsformacosx.com/

How so?

Lots of little things.

The one that drives me really crazy is that on Lion, both Emacs freak out if you try to resize from from anywhere except the bottom right corner. Similar issues with the green (+) button; full screen mode, etc.

Also, since you'll probably remap cmd to meta, you lose some system shortcuts which can be convenient when switching back and forth between various apps and your brain can't keep all the shortcuts straight.

those don't seem specific to aquamacs. I also don't remap cmd to meta, i bind the most common things to cmd like this.

(global-set-key (kbd "A-j") 'find-file)

I was referring to "neither of them feel as good as MacVim" - in particular with the Lion resize issues

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