From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: updating /usr/bin/emacs Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:04:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <26a71c99-701b-4525-913a-c7828bffce72@40g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <4da63d85-8098-478a-872a-eac5ce206cb3@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224291901 27276 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2008 01:05:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Xah Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 18 03:06:01 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kr0GT-0007yB-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:05:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kr0FO-0006j6-Re for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kr0F7-0006ir-LZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kr0F7-0006id-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36327 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kr0F6-0006iZ-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:32 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:53808) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kr0F6-0004KN-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:04:32 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (BAH5d9e.bah.pppool.de [77.135.93.158]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1149F189B316D; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:04:37 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4da63d85-8098-478a-872a-eac5ce206cb3@f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com> (Xah's message of "Fri\, 17 Oct 2008 14\:49\:15 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:58888 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > On Oct 17, 11:58 am, Brian Brooks wrote: >> I would just like to update /usr/bin/emacs to whatever the latest >> version of emacs is and still be able to run it within Terminal.app > it is generally not recommended to diddle anything in the default OS X > dirs such as /usr/bin. e.g. if you want to update your perl, python, > you'd better off install it elsewhere, e.g. fink does in /sw/ and > MacPorts in /opt/. If you don't want the GUI (which I can highly recommend, though), using those package managers is the easiest and cleanest way. Since they don't install in /usr/bin, so you'll need to put (in the case of MacPorts) /opt/local/bin in front of your $PATH once, and then installing Emacs is down to just: sudo port install emacs Very easy. Unfortunately, 22.3 hasn't trickled down to MacPorts, yet. When it does you can upgrade like this: sudo port sync sudo port upgrade outdated regards, Nikolaj Schumacher