Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Emacs.app problems

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

> I'm having a weird problem when launching Emacs.app. This is the
> error message I get:
> 
> ---
> An error has occurred while loading `/Users/etrajano/.emacs':
> 
> error: "Fontset \"-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-mac\" 
> already exists"
> [...]

Hi Ernesto,

Please do not use the .emacs file for Emacs 20.6 for Emacs 21 on Mac
OS X.  Many things such as the fontset `fontset-mac' and the
`mac-roman' coding system are now already defined in
lisp/term/mac-win.el.  Try removing/renaming the .emacs file and then
start Emacs.

Also, Emacs must be started from the Finder at this time.  There was a
message earlier on one of the mailing list describing how to pass a
command line option to Emacs.  Please take a look if you need to do
this.

Andrew.