Huh? Because I like X11 for certain apps, I am supposed to run
Linux? Is this supposed to be a joke or a snide remark?
On Feb 4, 2008, at 12:18 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Rob MacLeod wrote:
I was not able to get the Leopard shipped version of emacs to fire
up an X window. All it would do was drive the terminal window
(or X11 xterm) from which I launched it. This is not acceptable,
of course.
The leopard shipped emacs is linked with Carbon. You don't NEED X
for that version if you use the app wrapper I sent out - it supports
the NATIVE window system.
And if you prefer X11 to the native window system, well, it's just
possible that you might be happier installing Linux or *BSD on your
machine.
- Jordan
I was able to download the generic emacs from the gnu site, apply
the patch that I got from the Macports edition of emacs, and then
get it to both build and work. So why is the version on MacPorts
still so lame? Is there someone maintaining this package?
Cheers,
Rob
On Feb 4, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Mark Evenson wrote:
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
OK, I'll bite. What specifically is wrong with the system emacs
that requires folks to struggle so hard to build another copy?
It even supports carbon if you add an app wrapper (like the one I
just attached - a mere 55k, and most of that is the icon), so I'm
not sure what would lead one to struggle so hard to build emacs
again. Yes, the macports version should certainly work just on
general principle, but that's not the question I'm asking.
I was going to reply that /usr/bin/emacs is only emacs-21, but
then I just noticed that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard apparently ships
with emacs-22. Still, having the latest stable Emacs is a
plausible desire for users still with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
A second plausible use case might be to use MacPorts for the
packaging of various Emacs-modes (SLIME, nxml-mode, haskell-mode,
etc.), offering an infrastructure for their timely updating.
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