emacs does not work on MacOSX server

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

Hi William,

Please see below...

--Rodolfo



On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:29, William H. Magill
<magill at mcgillsociety.org>wrote:

> 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...
>

Totally Agree


>
> 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.
>

Makes sense.
I tried creating a .emacs file inside the ".emacs.d/" directory where I
placed  "setq system-uses-terminfo y" but this did not work
Was this the right thing to do?


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

I agree. The latest Emacs by MacPorts does work like a charm on client
systems but it fails on Server systems...

I guess I can always default to using the old Apple emacs in my servers...

I wish I could solve this. I like the newest emacs.

Thanks


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