Re: gui emacs from terminal

[Kevin Rodgers]

Cynthia Lee Page wrote:
> Dear Users,
>
> First off I am a newbie. I installed emacs (in the user folder of my mac 
> os10.5.8) and am able to run it from my terminal but I have no gui 
> interface. This is the command I used to build
>
> $ ./configure --with-jpeg=no --with-png=no --with-gif=no --with-tiff=no
>
> I did this because I was told to by the error messages when I initially 
> attempted to install with just ./configure.

Why not `./configure --with-ns` as suggested in ./nextstep/INSTALL, which is
referenced by both ./INSTALL and ./nextstep/README?

> So I have two questions is this why I don't get a gui interface?
>
> More importantly can I open with a gui interface with this installation?

Are you running the ./nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs executable
from the terminal?

Or did you run `make install` after `make`, and are running the
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs executable from the terminal?

Does it help to run the executable with the -Q option?

Can you re-run ./configure and post the output?

> I have downloaded and installed a second version of emacs, the carbon 
> version which does open with the gui, I have this file in my 
> applications folder. Is there any way I can invoke this version of emacs 
> while in the terminal and having ssh'd to a remote host?
>
> Please ask for clarification if this is unclear and thanks in advance 
> for any help,

I suggest:

        make distclean
        ./configure --with-ns
        make
        sudo make install

I always log the output for future reference e.g.

        ./configure --with-ns 2>&1 | tee configure.log

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA