emacs23 under snow leopard "cannot open termcap database file"

[1ric2]

Hi,

this is my first post here.

I recently installed Snow Leopard (10.6.4) on my MacBook. I just installed macport and I was trying to install emacs (23.2) with it.

the installation proceeds without errors, but when I try to launch the program I get the following error message:

"emacs: Cannot open termcap database file".

Can anyone help me?

thanks

ric

 

[Mal]

Not sure about that error, but emacs is already installed on Mac's by default. Dunno which version, but you might just try what's already there.

jW

 

[1ric2]

Thank you for your reply Mal!

Yes there is already a version of emacs that runs in the terminal, but I would like to have the one that runs on an external window. It used to work before upgrading to Snow Leopard. I was running Tiger and I could successfully install it with fink and run it.

Now, after upgrading fink according to the official website, I cannot install it anymore. So I tried macport, which actually installs it without errors, but then I get this strange (to me ) error message....

 

[tshort]

Have you tried:

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

or

http://emacsformacosx.com/

???

 

[1ric2]

Thanks a lot!