Originally posted by robbieduncan
Lets deal with the basics first.
Do you have X11 running? The "normal" emacs GUI is X11 based.
Do you have your DISPLAY environment variable set. If not try setting it to localhost:0.0 (i.e. if you type export | grep DISPLAY do you get anything. If not try setting it).
Have you tried using xemacs rather than plain emacs?
Originally posted by robbieduncan
xemacs is not installed by default. You would need to use fink or something similar to get it. If you have x11 running and your display variable set try normal emacs. It can be compiled to use an x11 GUI if it thinks x is running. It is probably best to do this from an x11 xterm instead of the terminal as well.
Originally posted by abhishekit
how do we do it?? i open xterm n write emacs...but its the same terminal window of emacs, not the gui one
Originally posted by robbieduncan
Assuming you checked the DISPLAY variable in the xterm then it seems to indicate that the version of emacs included with OSX does not have the x stuff in it.
You could try typing "man emacs" and actually reading about the x11 stuff!
Or install fink and get xemacs.
Originally posted by notkevin
Just download it from here and don't worry about X11 or fink (i have not tried this binary myself since i am a VIM user)
http://www.webweavertech.com/ovidiu/emacs.html
i installed fink..then installed xemacs(well..tried to) .these are the packages it was installing...Originally posted by Chealion
If you don't have xemacs installed, how are you supposed to use it?
It's like asking why can't I get this screw in a piece of wood, when you don't have a screwdriver or drill.
You'll have to install fink and install xemacs if you want to use it. fink is not too hard to use, just follow the instructions to install fink, and then run sudo dselect.
From there, find xemacs, and it will install all the dependancies and such.