Re: [Mac-emacs-users] new to mac os x

[Piet v. O. <pi...@cs...>]

>>>>> Amos <amo...@ut...> (A) writes:

A> Hi.
A> I've been mostly around Sun machines for a long time, then Linux,
A> and now more recently Mac OS X (on a TiBook).  Trying to get latest
A> CVS Emacs going.  I installed texinfo, textutils, and ispell
A> without problems.  (I debated whether to use Fink or not, but in
A> the end blew it off for now.  Mainly I'm just eager to get this
A> Emacs going.)

A> I then did a configure on Emacs followed by 'make bootstrap'.  It
A> *seemed* to compile just fine.  After the 'make install', when I
A> try to start up emacs without any arguments, I get:

A>  % emacs
A>  Fatal error (6).Abort

A> However, if I do 'emacs -nw', then it comes up just fine:

A>  GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin5.4)

A> Thoughts?

If you want a non-graphical emacs, i.e. running in a Terminal windows:
 emacs -nw is the proper invocation.

If you want a GUI emacs you jave to start the Emacs.app in the mac
subdirectory. Either double-click or start it from a Terminal with open
Emacs.app. And you normally would copy it to /Applications or some such.
Be careful to copy and not to move, otherwise you get problems if you want
to recompile.
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