Re: X11 Mac OS X 10.3 emacs fink: only terminal?

[D P Schreber <schreberdp@rayban.net>]

On 2004-12-13, Emar <e.maier@phil.kun.nl> wrote:
> Here's my problem: I installed Emacs with X11 support through Fink on
> Mac OS X 10.3. 

You installed a precompiled binary package (with dselect or apt-get) or
you built it from sources ('fink install ...')?


> I've done it before and it worked great, but now I can't
> seem to get Emacs out of terminal mode. I can only launch it from
> Apple's Terminal.app and X11 terminals (after setting the PATH
> variables to include /sw/bin/) 

If you define PATH in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist to include /sw/bin,
you won't have to go through an intermediate shell in this way.


> and then it stays in the terminal

When you launch it from the xterm, where is /sw/bin on PATH? To put it
another way, what does 'which emacs' say?

When you launch from Terminal, what's the value of DISPLAY?


> Apple X11 (based on Xfree4.3.0)

Did you install the X11 developer package as well?


> 4) Before I used to use an applescript to launch my X11 emacs

If you fix up ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist you won't have to do this
silliness any more...