[CM] osx-package/emacs

[daniel mayer]

"Rick Taube" <taube@uiuc.edu> schrieb am 07.09.03 17:11:08:
> 
> > I can open it by double-clicking the application icon, but 
> > don't know how to
> > transform the command line in the shell script.
> > (From the terminal one must now write emacs -nw)
> > 
> 
> Hi, if you installed the OSX 10.2 Emacs.app from porkrind then the
> terminal command
> 	% emacs
> Should automatically launch the GUI Emacs.app instead of the console
> emacs that comes with OS X. At least it does on my machine and I didn't
> do anything to get this functionality. But if 'emacs' does not start the
> Aqua emacs, then you can simply edit the script file in CommonMusic.app
> and use whatever command starts your Emacs.app. This script file is:
> 
> /Applications/CommonMusic.app/Contents/MacOS/cm.sh
> 
> Edit this file and put whatever command launches your GUI emacs. For
> example, if you want to use Xemacs then edit the file and uncomment out
> the xemacs launching line that I put in there in case someone wanted to
> use it. The command that cm.sh currently uses is:
> 
> emacs   --load "/Applications/CommonMusic.app/Contents/MacOS/cm.el"
> 
> IF that doesn't start your Emacs.app you might try starting it using the
> OSX 'open' command, ie something like this might launch CM in your Aqua
> Emacs:
> 
> open Emacs ---load "/Applications/CommonMusic.app/Contents/MacOS/cm.el"
> 
> Unfortunately Im at home on a piece of crap windows machine so I cant
> test it out. But if it doesn't work then 'man open' should tell you what
> you need to know.
> 
> Regardless of which GUI emacs you actually use be sure to pass it the
> --load ... arg so that it loads the cm.el file.This is the file that
> does most of the work.
> 
> 
> There might be some way for the installation process to actually set
> things up ahead of time so that script files are  installed correctly
> when you install the app but unfortunately I don't know anything about
> the .pkg packaging Apple provides for OSX. Its probably possible though.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: daniel mayer [mailto:herbstmondwind@web.de] 
> > Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 9:12 AM
> > To: taube@uiuc.edu
> > Subject: osx-package
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Rick,
> >  
> >   On my machine  XEmacs/OpenMCL/CM starts up 
> > after double-clicking the X11 icon and with
> > 
> > /usr/bin/open-x11 /sw/bin/xemacs --load 
> > "/Applications/CommonMusic.app/Contents/MacOS/cm.el" 
> > 
> > in cm.sh.
> > I had no time for further testing till now, but I hope I will have
> > during the next days.
> > Emacs does not work. I had to get the version for OSX 10.2 
> > from porkrind.
> > I can open it by double-clicking the application icon, but 
> > don't know how to
> > transform the command line in the shell script.
> > (From the terminal one must now write emacs -nw)
> > 
> > Many Thanks for preparing this bundle and any hint concerning emacs,
> > 
> > Best Regards
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
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Coming closer:

The line

open -a emacs "/Applications/CommonMusic.app/Contents/MacOS/cm.el" 

in the cm.sh script makes the click on the CM-icon work, 
then, though, I explicitely have to evaluate the
buffer and CM is there!

Thanks

Daniel

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