From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ajanta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs 21.3.50 on Mac OSX 10.2.2 Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:30:55 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <061220021433180478%ajanta@no.spam> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039207394 10226 80.91.224.249 (6 Dec 2002 20:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KPJY-0002eo-00 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:43:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KPCj-0000vZ-00; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:36:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!uunet!dca.uu.net!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssrv26.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.9 (Carbon/OS X) Original-Lines: 65 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.109.164.149 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssrv26.news.prodigy.com 1039210255 ST000 64.109.164.149 (Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:30:55 CST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:30:55 CST X-UserInfo1: [[PAPDCA[S@QBQLXBBN@^RLBPJ]TPUDO@HTHOCULF@^PGDTFOG[]FKKZE\]^HRWI[FCWJF^NB^[D_DSBR^RC^QPFTFUCYRDIH@\FCQKBITUT@EP_[CAFHTC@GLDKZHBMGDXCJINMCA\]GG[RH\^MOM[\BK[NVPWKYAYIPOG@SK@ZA]DE[\AP]_DFU^T]A\VM Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348232 comp.text.tex:237520 gnu.emacs.help:107806 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4354 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4354 [Deleted the xemacs group, but keeping comp.text.tex since this whole exercise is TeX-related for me] Andrew Choi wrote: > Oh no, not again. This patch will fix it: > > Index: getopt.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lib-src/getopt.c,v > retrieving revision 1.21 > ... Thanks. I am sure this would have helped. Fortunately I was able to get the emacs 21.3.50 built by Enrico Franconi, also thanks to Rodney Sparapani earlier in the thread. (For future reference, what does a "patch" like this mean? For example would the file getopt.c get *replaced* by this text, *appended* or something else? Sorry, very little compiling experience here...) Franconi's compilation, "which does work out of the box" and is an extremely recent build (Dec 2) available at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efranconi/mac-emacs , still leaves me with a few questions: 1. There seem to be *three* executables of identical size (my disk is not full, but why waste 16MB if one doesn't have to?): /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs* /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs* /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs-21.3.50* The first of these is probably what does the work because I can run it from the terminal by typing its path name. The other two seem to be using up 16MB for no good reason I can decipher: they don't even run [I get Fatal error (6).Abort]. What are they for and can I safely delete them? Even if they are needed, shouldn't a symbolic link suffice? 2. Speaking of disk space, I am not going to use any language besides English. How can I safely delete the code supporting other langauges and save some disk space? In doing this manually, I am afraid of inadvertantly deleting some file that supports latin/ascii or symbols. (There ought to be a script to do this, probably a make target.) Basically, emacs is a large distribution and I want to clean up everythign I don't actually need. This includes duplicate executables, non-English support, and sources needed to build emacs but not to run it lnow. 3. When running emacs, "preference" panel in toolbar is broken. 4. The window is normal video (black text on white background). I would prefer reverse video (white text on black background) if possible. How to get that? 5. At some point (I must have pressed the wrong key) the program complained I don't have ispell. That is true, I haven't gotten around to it and should. However, would aspell be better, as some claim, and if so how to make emacs work with it instead? Thanks to every one. This is great help. A