Leopard status / working Emacs port

Rob MacLeod macleod at cvrti.utah.edu
Mon Dec 31 08:08:44 PST 2007


Thanks Vlado.

I did get emacs-app to work and will give it a try.  I have not been  
happen with any of the previous carbon or aqua versions and just stuck  
with the X11 edition.  But I am happy to see if things have improved.

Cheers,
Rob

On Dec 30, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Vlado Plaga wrote:

> 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
>



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