From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to setup emacs 23.1 on macosx Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:27:38 +0100 Organization: University of Cambridge Message-ID: References: <3b9893450908051127y7d73f1cfg328a55c49127182b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249507719 22864 80.91.229.12 (5 Aug 2009 21:28:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:28:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 05 23:28:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYo29-00058e-6A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:28:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59382 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYo28-0005F8-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:28:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYo1f-0005DT-3j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MYo1a-0005AZ-6j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57809 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MYo1a-0005AR-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:16102) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYo1Z-0003JB-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MYo1X-0008PJ-U9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:27:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MYo1U-0003e6-SN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:49 +0000 Original-Received: from smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:48 +0000 Original-Received: from sdl.web by smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:27:48 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: smaug.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZRr4FYyqhqkcfKX7hjO+N/WrHLg= X-Detected-Operating-System: by mx20.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:66811 Archived-At: On 2009-08-05 19:27 +0100, n179911 wrote: > Hi, > > I get the source of emacs 23.1 and compile successfully on Mac OSX. > I have installed it by DnD Emacs.app to /Application. > > But how can I > * start emacs on shell command line ? with a file name so that it > starts with the file open? > * what should my EDITOR variable set to? I want to set it up so that > git can open emacs when i commit. > > Thank you. You need to use absolute path like this to start Emacs from terminal: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -- Leo's Emacs uptime: 1 day, 21 hours, 24 minutes, 3 seconds