emacs does not work on MacOSX server

[William H. Magill]

On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:19 AM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> This is a MacOSX server-specific problem
> 
> After applying the latest Apple server updates and port selfupdate and updates, which included emacs, I cannot use emacs anymore
> 
> After invoking emacs I get the following:
> 
> "emacs: Cannot open termcap database file"
> 
> Any ideas??

Emacs is like Perl ... it's a philosophy of life...

Been a long time -- I forget all my emacs internals ... but:

system-uses-terminfo
Variable: Non-nil means the system uses terminfo rather than termcap.
This variable can be used by terminal emulator packages.

I think....

(setq system-uses-terminfo y) 

in your .emacs file will switch to using terminfo, which is what OSX ships with -- i.e. no termcap file, just terminfo files.

No guess as to what might have changed or why. (It still works nicely in 10.6.7.)

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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