Emacs.app & carbon emacs

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 13, 2008, at 18:29, Brian Flaherty wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have Emacs.app installed, and I'd like to install emacs +carbon
> too.  When I did that, everything was fine until activation:
>
> --->  Activating emacs 22.2_0+carbon
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error:
> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Info.plist is being used by
> the active emacs-app port.  Please deactivate this port first, or use
> the -f flag to force the activation.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> What does it mean to force it?  Will they peacefully coexist?

No, they won't coexist. Their files want to live in the same places,  
so you can only have one at a time.

You can "sudo port -f activate emacs" but it will overwrite the files  
that belong to emacs-app and this is probably not what you want.

You should deactivate emacs-app and then activate (force should no  
longer be necessary) emacs.