Symlinking Emacs.app to the $PATH

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 15, 2008, at 12:46, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> On Nov 14, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>> Here (10.4.11) "open" doesn't take arguments:
>>
>> prunille:~> open -a /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app -nw foo
>> 2008-11-15 03:22:26.754 open[4228] No such file: /Users/vinc17/-nw
>
> Well, I have not run 10.4 for a number of years now, but it  
> certainly works on 10.5, so get off the stick and upgrade already.   
> Leopard was released over a year ago!

There are a lot of things to like about Leopard, but enough things to  
dislike that I'm staying away until I have to upgrade. MacPorts still  
supports Tiger so it's useful to provide solutions that work there.