Emacs returns error whenever run

[Savings]

I went to fire up emacs today and received the following message:

emacs: child exited with status 1

I went ahead and cleared out my .profile file, thinking that it might have been the source of the problem, but it still returns the error.

I searched around on Google for a bit, but didn't find much. Anyone have any ideas? I'm on a Macbook Pro Core2Duo running 10.4.9, if that helps.

 

[Eraserhead]

What about vi?

 

[mkrishnan]

Did emacs ever work for you on that Mac? You're talking about the implementation of emacs that's included as part of OS X, correct?

Not a solution, but are you aware of...

http://aquamacs.org/
http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html

You might end up liking one/both of them if you're an "emacs person."

 

[cube]

Install Fink and use XEmacs, which is better than any plain Emacs.

 

[Savings]

Did emacs ever work for you on that Mac? You're talking about the implementation of emacs that's included as part of OS X, correct?

I -think- it worked at one point on this machine. I'm referring to the emacs that comes with OSX. I suppose I could archive and install to try to fix it, but I'll take a look at some of the alternatives that you linked instead, since I -really- don't want to reinstall.