Leopard status / working Emacs port

[Vlado Plaga]

Hi Rob,

although you appear to have working emacs installation now, let me ask
if you have tried the emacs-app port (version 23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3)? This
works very well for me on Leopard and I like that emacs version better
than the Carbon version (which apparently is in the emacs port package)
anyway. I tried the Carbon version by downloading it from apple.com[1].

I always start emacs from the command line, and so I created the
following alias (which, I know, will break with every new version):
 emacs='/opt/local/var/macports/software/emacs-app/23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3_0/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
--no-splash'

As someone being new to both MacOS and MacPorts, coming from Debian/
Ubuntu, I am also not happy with the initial state of MacPorts on
Leopard, but judging from the activity on this mailing list and the rate
of improvements (when I first tried it, the emacs-app package, version
rc2, also did not build on Leopard) the situation is likely to improve
steadily and quickly.

Regards, Vlado

[1]
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html