Emacs23.App and odd focus issues

Emacs23.App and odd focus issues

[Alex Bennee]

Hi,

I'm stuck with a Mac for the next few weeks so have had to find an
emacs for it. I went for Fink's Emacs23.App build which has installed
fine. However running it from /sw/bin/emacs23 doesn't work very well.
The window comes up but the application never comes into to focus
resulting in all key presses generating the no app saw this boink
sound.

I was mainly setting this up for It's All Text and Firefox. Browsing
to /sw/Applications/Emacs.app doesn't work but manually enerting in
the full path:

/sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs

Does finally make it work.

Can anyone explain this weird behavior? Should emacs.app just never
be installed in a classic bin directory?

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Re: Emacs23.App and odd focus issues

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 21.03.2009 um 22:57 schrieb Alex Bennee:

> Can anyone explain this weird behavior? Should emacs.app just never
> be installed in a classic bin directory?

When you build the Aqua client, then /sw/bin/emacs23 is unusable.  
Instead you should use the application /sw/Applications/Emacs.app,  
either by double-clicking it in Finder or running 'open /sw/ 
Applications/Emacs.app' on the command line ('open -e /sw/ 
Applications/Emacs.app <file name>' lets it load a file). You can  
also launch it as '/sw/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &'  
and pass arguments to it. This bypasses the OS in a way that you can  
launch this application more often than once.

Emacs.app has or had a Preferences Pane to configure some basic things.

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