Nadeem Faruque
nadee****@gmail*****
Tue Sep 6 08:52:33 JST 2005
For a complicated reason I need to be able to run emacs from a a symbolic link at ~/emacs. This was working and I am unsure what has changed since I last used it (perhaps a recent security update?). The problem was present on the June release of Carbon Emacs Package, and isn't better with the August one. The installation works fine whether opened by clicking the icon, or from the Terminal: > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs works fine and launches emacs in a separate window. But when I try to use the symbolic link I run into problems. > ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs appears to be fine, but when I try to use it I run into trouble: > ~/emacs emacs opens in -nw mode (i.e. in the Terminal window) with the Messages Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ Resources/libexec/emacs/22.0.50/powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0/) does not exist. (/Users/faruque/emacs) Loading disp-table...done byte-code: Finder got an error: Can't continue . NB The June release of Carbon Emacs Package was behaving the same, but actually tried to open the separate emacs window and then it sat there half-drawn. NB2 I've tried > ln /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs > ln -h /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs > ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs ~/emacs etc but without any change Any ideas of what to try? Nadeem -- Dr S.M. Nadeem N. Faruque 9 Barley Court Saffron Walden Essex CB11 3HG 01799 500 120
