[OS X TeX] A working version of emacs (fwd)

[mark oilcan]

--- Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:
> 
> Am 11.05.2005 um 17:03 schrieb mark oilcan:
> 
> > X11 versions of xemacs are most easily installed via fink or
> > darwinports, but there's also a beta carbon version available here:
> > http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-xemacs/index.html
> >
> 
> XEmacs works indeed much better!
> 
>  From the first start a few packages are missing: uniquify to convert
> .emacs to init.el (because of too much customization done?), efs for 
> package management, and I don't know what else. I couldn't find a way
> to change the font size or create a font set for even better Unicode 
> support ...
> 

Yes, the xemacs you get is very minimal and you really need to download
the packages from www.xemacs.org.
(http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html )
I've found the easiest way to do things so far (since installing the
packages through the menu doesn't work yet in carbon) is to compile
carbon xemacs to point to the same package directory as x11 xemacs
(using the --package-path option to configure) and using x11 xemacs to
keep up to date on packages. 

Font sets don't exist in xemacs. These things are supposed to work by
language environment etc under the options menu. I would suggest
writing to xemacs-beta if you have found some instances which don't
work properly.

Mark A



		
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