cannot run emacs after update to xQuartz 2.8.1

I have known a lot of UNIX folks over the years, who like me, only used vi for editing. I never met anyone that admitted using ed or ex. 🤨

Cats are a protected species:

pbcopy <<<"something for the clipboard"

That is true. I was in a limited invite meeting with Bill Joy once. In 1977, I was using the runoff, teco, and sos editors on a DEC-10KL. And the nasty ned line editor on Amdahl UTS (guest operating system on VM/SP/HPO) via a block mode IBM 3279 terminal, while migrating PL/1 code to C.

VikingOSX wrote:

Of course, you could build Teco-64 for macOS and go back to the emacs birth… 🤓 (watching Bob cringe…)

I did have to use a very VERY old and minimal TECO implementation on a PDP-11/45. I do not think it had enough capability to implement the first emacs. I also was glad when that company decided to get Unix System 5.2 installed on their PDP-11/45, and also got a VAX-11/750 with Unix installed as well. I then championed vi, and became very good at it (I had been an EDT user before that), while the TECO users whined 😀

I admit to having used ed, as well as sos, as well as someother line oriented text editors on various operating systems, and found them a step up from the 90- column punched cards.

But as soon as I had a screen oriented editor, I moved heaven and earth to always have one. Worse, I got so hooked on vi, I found a VAX/VMX TPU vi emulator, and spent about 7 years using that at Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 80's thru 1995. Then I was back on Unix, and using vi until I found Vim, and it has been Vim ever since.

But saying all that, I know from personal experience how difficult it is to retrain your fingers, so in my job, I also do anything I can to help emacs users be successful with their chosen editor.

Is that a 32-bit version of emacs that Catalina won't tolerate because it only supports 64-bit applications?

Won't be any help with emacs, as my entire UNIX background stuck with the vi editor and that was fine for my purposes. 🤓

Why not get a macOS GUI version of emacs, and skip using XQuartz ?

https://emacsformacosx.com/

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS

Of course, you could build Teco-64 for macOS and go back to the emacs birth… 🤓 (watching Bob cringe…)

Or just use vi, the one true text editor. 😁

(Yes, I know real UNIX people use ed, or the really hardcore ones use cat. 🤣)

You need to talk to more people who used UNIX before Bill Joy wrote vi.

Before that you had to use a line editor.

I hate to admit it, but I had to change the git editor I use to notepad++ rather than the default.