Emacs not opening in it's own X-window

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Emacs not opening in it's own X-window

Emacs question.

I am attempting to run emacs from the command line, and am hoping that it will open it's own window ( like it does on other platforms like AIX, Sun, Linux, etc.. ) but am not able to figure out why it doesn't.. Any ideas?

Mike

imac & macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 6, 2009 10:10 AM

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BobHarris

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Sep 6, 2009 2:19 PM in response to msprewitt

To the best of my knowledge, the emacs that ships with Mac OS X only includes terminal support.

You can get pre-built Mac OS X emacs versions that support either X11 or Mac OS X Aqua GUI interfaces.

I'm a Vim user (and it only comes with terminal support; so I build my own from sources 🙂 )

As a Vim user, I do not know how good any of the following Mac OS X emacs version are to use, but I'm listing a few that I found so you know that Macs are emacs friendly.

Aquamacs
<http://aquamacs.org/>

EmacsForMacOS
<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS>

Xemacs
<http://www.xemacs.org/>

Besides Google searches for "Mac OS X emacs", you can also search <http://VersionTracker.com> and <http://MacUpdate.com>

Or if you prefer to build your own, there is the Free Software Foundation emacs
<http://directory.fsf.org/project/emacs/>

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