From: Nicolas N. <Nic...@iw...> - 2004-01-21 09:39:31
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Raymond Wiker <Ray...@fa...> writes: > Nicolas Neuss writes: > > Hello, SBCL users. > > > > I have access to an institute Laptop (G4 Powerbook) running MacOSX (10.3). > > I have heard from colleagues that Emacs would not work well with this OS, > > etc. Therefore, to be sure that I do not sink much time here, I wanted to > > ask if someone on this list uses an environment consisting of Emacs > > (XEmacs), SBCL, and ILISP/SLIME on this operating system (if yes, was it > > difficult to set up?). > > I'm using Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50) on my 1st-generation 12" > PowerBook G4, with SLIME and SBCL. Works great. > > I'm generally happier with XEmacs, but I like the fact that GNU > Emacs does not require X11 to run. What does this mean? Can Emacs use the native window system and XEmacs cannot? Or are you using it from a terminal (which XEmacs should be able to do as well)? > The main difficulty for me was that I had to compile Emacs > from source, which means that it was not difficult at all :-) > > Note that SBCL has some issues with run-program (or child > processes, in general), probably related to the handling of SIGCHILD > (or U*ix signals in general). What are these issues? (I would need run-program soon.) Thank you for the feedback, Nicolas. |