Emacs and Leopard problems continue

[skip at pobox.com]

    >> How is one supposed to find that out?

    Jordan> Run emacs. :-)

    Jordan> If you look at the startup screen text, you'll see: GNU Emacs
    Jordan> 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-01-30 on
    Jordan> localhost

On my laptop /Applications/Emacs.app is dated Dec 3 2003.  When I try to
start it I get a crash dialog:

    The application Emacs quit unexpectedly.
    Mac OS X and other applications are not affected.
    ...
    [Ignore] [Report] [Relaunch]

I imagine that got copied from my G4 laptop via SetupAssistant given what I
found in the crash log:

    Process:         Emacs [48538]
    Path:            /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
    Identifier:      com.gnu.Emacs
    Version:         ??? (???)
    Code Type:       PPC (Translated)
    Parent Process:  launchd [189]

Should I have expected it to work?

There's also something called EmacsStep.app in /Applications.  That starts
and runs, giving this summary of who he is:

    This is GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, *Step 9.0rc3)
    of 2007-11-25 on hermes.mshome.net

That app is dated Nov 25 2007.

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