Emacs and Leopard problems continue

[Mark Evenson]

Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> OK, I'll bite.  What specifically is wrong with the system emacs that 
> requires folks to struggle so hard to build another copy?   It even 
> supports carbon if you add an app wrapper (like the one I just attached 
> - a mere 55k, and most of that is the icon), so I'm not sure what would 
> lead one to struggle so hard to build emacs again.   Yes, the macports 
> version should certainly work just on general principle, but that's not 
> the question I'm asking.

I was going to reply that /usr/bin/emacs is only emacs-21, but then I 
just noticed that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard apparently ships with emacs-22. 
  Still, having the latest stable Emacs is a plausible desire for users 
still with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

A second plausible use case might be to use MacPorts for the packaging 
of various Emacs-modes (SLIME, nxml-mode, haskell-mode, etc.), offering 
an infrastructure for their timely updating.


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