emacs gui not workin

Hopefully I'm not alone, but I have no clue what you're talking about.

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

That's not xemacs. The screenshot is not running in GUI mode!

You could try this http://homepage.mac.com/pjarvis/xemacs-21.5.9.html

 

Ok, finally other people that use emacs .

I use the version of emacs that you guys say isn't the gui (It actually is gui emacs, but that's besides the point.) Ever since i've upgraded to Panther i've been unable to use mouse editing. Since I do more copy and paste than I do writing actual code this is a huge problem. I was wondering if anyone else has been having the same problems.

 

GUI Emacs binary for Panther

I have compiled emacs 21.3.50 from the CVS sources (as of 2003/11/12) for Panther and it works flawlessly for me (Emacs Carbon app, hence GUI).

I did put together a package, you can download it at:

http://www.rosuda.org/emacs-panther.dmg

It also contains a sample config file, just type:

cp /usr/local/emacs21/emacs.user.config ~/.emacs

in the Terminal and you will get all the common <Cmd>+... Mac-OS-like shortcuts like copy/paste/close/undo/go-to-line ... even in Emacs. (This of course overwrites your old personal Emacs settings, so if you did setup your emacs before and don't want to lose them, either save them or edit the file manually)

Of course this is not an official package, so use at your own risk (no warranties whatsoever etc. ...)

 

changing PATH permanently

@abhishekit:

You can use the usual "dot"-files for your shell, for example if you use zsh (default since Jaguar), then you can create .zshenv file in your home directory with all the necessary stuff.

For example mine looks like this:

--- cut here ---

# let's see if we have fink installed on this machine
if test -e /sw/bin/init.sh ; then
source /sw/bin/init.sh
fi

# if this machine has /usr/local then add it
if test -e /usr/local/bin ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
fi

if test -e /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current ; then
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
export PATH
fi

export DISPLAY=:0.0
export CVS_RSH="ssh"

# for bash - the prompt
export PS1='\h:\W\$ '
# for zsh - the prompt (must be set after PS1 otherwise zsh will fall back to PS1)
export prompt='%m:%3~%% '

# some handy aliases
alias l="ls -l"
alias rm="rm -f"
if test -e /Applications/Emacs.app ; then
alias e="/usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Emacs.app"
else
alias e="emacs"
fi
alias ew="emacs -nw"

echo " "
echo "Welcome to `hostname` (`uname -psr`)"
echo " "

--- cut here ---

of course you can split the stuff into .profile and .zshenv or whatever combination you want to use (depending on whether you want to set stuff for xterm or login shells etc. ...)