Re: gui emacs from terminal

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Cynthia Lee Page <Cynthia.Page@Colorado.EDU> writes:

> Dear Users,
>
> First off I am a newbie. I installed emacs (in the user folder of my
> mac os10.5.8) and am able to run it from my terminal but I have no gui
> interface. This is the command I used to build
>
> $ ./configure --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
>
> I did this because I was told to by the error messages when I
> initially attempted to install with just ./configure.
>
> So I have two questions is this why I don't get a gui interface?
>
> More importantly can I open with a gui interface with this installation?
>
> I have downloaded and installed a second version of emacs, the carbon
> version which does open with the gui, I have this file in my
> applications folder. Is there any way I can invoke this version of
> emacs while in the terminal and having ssh'd to a remote host?
>
> Please ask for clarification if this is unclear and thanks in advance
> for any help,

I second Tim, use MacPort:

   sudo port install emacs +x11

You will have to install and launch X11.app, the X11 server, and then
you will be able to use emacs in X11 as on any other unix system.

Otherwise you have two other alternatives:

- Aquamacs : an emacs with a native Mac User Interface, highly
reconfigured for a multi (Mac-)windows mode of use. (I don't like it, I
prefer to have the same emacs configuration on all my systems).
http://aquamacs.org

- GNU emacs for Mac which is the normal emacs, as a MacOSX application.
(It is perfectly usable, like the similar on MS-Windows I must say. Yay
for GNU emacs!)
http://emacsformacosx.com


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