Emacs and Leopard problems continue

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

I don't know where your /Applications/Emacs.app came from, but it  
wasn't Apple.  You must have installed it at some point in the past  
and then nuked its support files or something.  I would, in any case,  
delete it since you don't know how it got there. :)

- Jordan

On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:46 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>
>>> 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.
>
> -- 
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/