As I mentioned in my Emacs 24 Features post, Bozhidar Batsov over at (think) has been using Emacs 24 with great success. He has a new post up that describes how to get Emacs 24 installed on OS X, Linux, and Windows.
For OS X, he recommends just getting the pretest from Emacs for OSX, but I like to compile it from sources. I tried that but had a problem with the libcurses-dev not being found. I haven’t had that problem before but this is the first time I’ve compiled Emacs since I installed Lion so I probably just need to download the sources and compile the library. Leave a comment if you’ve run into this problem and tell us what you did to resolve it.
In any event, after you’ve installed Emacs 24 you may want to look at Batsov’s Emacs Prelude. It’s “an advanced Emacs setup specifically for Emacs 24.” It works with OS X, Linux, and Windows.
Batsov notes that although Emacs 24 is not scheduled for release until Spring 2012, he has been using it for several months and found it to be rock solid. He concludes by saying that there really is no excuse not to switch to Emacs 24 now so if you’re inclined, see Batsov’s post that I linked above to get the details on how to get it installed.