Re: Mac terminal.app: starting emacs, possibly as sudo

[Marius Hofert]

okay, I tried:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv ./emacs ./emacs.old # move pre-installed emacs
sudo ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/emacs emacs

Starting "emacs" from a new terminal then opened emacs, but ended up in a mess:
localhost:~ mhofert$ emacs
Warning: arch-dependent data dir 
(/Users/david/src/emacs-dev/ftp-versions/emacs-23.3/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/emacs/23.3/x86_64-apple-darwin/)
 does not exist.
Warning: arch-independent data dir 
(/Users/david/src/emacs-dev/ftp-versions/emacs-23.3/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/23.3/etc/)
 does not exist.
Error: charsets directory 
(/Users/david/src/emacs-dev/ftp-versions/emacs-23.3/nextstep/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/23.3/etc/charsets)
 does not exist.
Emacs will not function correctly without the character map files.
Please check your installation!
Warning: Could not find simple.el nor simple.elc

Any ideas?
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/emacs works fine, though.

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-10-17, at 10:32 , Michael Albinus wrote:

> Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> writes:
> 
>> Dear Michael,
> 
> Hi Marius,
> 
>> 2) Concerning my last question: Is there any harm in "replacing"
>> /usr/bin/emacs by /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs? This
>> way one can easily use "sudo emacs" or "emacs -Q"... and start the GUI
>> emacs with these features.
> 
> No idea, I do not use Mac.
> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
> 
> Best regards, Michael.