Emacs not launching independent Xwindow (emacs shell)

[Dan Ports]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 03:22:58PM -0800, gmail wrote:
> I have installed macports and use many of the other applications without
> problems.  I have had a problem in getting any of the emacs versions to
> provide a x-window in the command  ?emacs test &? which should launch GNU
> emacs into its own window as in a Linux environment.

Did you install emacs with the +x11 or +gtk (for a prettier interface)
variant set? Otherwise, you'll just get console-mode emacs.

Dan

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