Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Am I missing something here?

[Andrew C. <ak...@cs...>]

> However, attempting to launch the Emacs.app from the Finder, through
> doubble-clicking on the icon, results in a stalled launch of emacs,
> which does nothing and can only be dealt with through explicitly
> forcing it to quit.

Please check that you did a `make install'?  You should have a
/usr/local/share/emacs/ directory.

> I can launch emacs-21 through emacs -nw from the command line [...]
> However, this method of running emacs does not launch new
> frames. Moreover, the function keys f1 through f4 are seen as kp-f1
> through kp-f4, and the functions f5 and above are not seen at
> all. Since f5 through f9 are the emacs recomended function keys
> reserved for local use, this is a most unfortunate situation.

When it is run in terminal mode, Emacs can only get what Terminal.app
passes to it.  Perhaps those keys are all the latter recognizes.  The
GUI mode supports a few more function keys.

Andrew.