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Emacs 21.3.50 on Mac OSX 10.2.2


From: Ajanta
Subject: Emacs 21.3.50 on Mac OSX 10.2.2
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 21:30:55 GMT
User-agent: Thoth/1.5.9 (Carbon/OS X)

[Deleted the xemacs group, but keeping comp.text.tex since this whole
exercise is TeX-related for me]

Andrew Choi <akochoi_NOSPAM_@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Oh no, not again.  This patch will fix it:
> 
> Index: getopt.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lib-src/getopt.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.21
> ... 

Thanks. I am sure this would have helped. Fortunately I was able to get
the emacs 21.3.50 built by Enrico Franconi, also thanks to Rodney
Sparapani earlier in the thread. (For future reference, what does a
"patch" like this mean? For example would the file getopt.c get
*replaced* by this text, *appended* or something else? Sorry, very
little compiling experience here...)

Franconi's compilation, "which does work out of the box" and is an
extremely recent build (Dec 2) available at
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Efranconi/mac-emacs ,

still leaves me with a few questions:

1. There seem to be *three* executables of identical size (my disk is
not full, but why waste 16MB if one doesn't have to?):

/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs*
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs*
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs-21.3.50*

The first of these is probably what does the work because I can run
it from the terminal by typing its path name. The other two seem
to be using up 16MB for no good reason I can decipher: they don't even
run [I get Fatal error (6).Abort]. What are they for and can I safely
delete them? Even if they are needed, shouldn't a symbolic link
suffice?

2. Speaking of disk space, I am not going to use any language besides
English. How can I safely delete the code supporting other langauges
and save some disk space? In doing this manually, I am afraid of
inadvertantly deleting some file that supports latin/ascii or symbols.
(There ought to be a script to do this, probably a make target.)

Basically, emacs is a large distribution and I want to clean up
everythign I don't actually need. This includes duplicate executables,
non-English support, and sources needed to build emacs but not to run
it lnow.

3. When running emacs, "preference" panel in toolbar is broken.

4. The window is normal video (black text on white background).
I would prefer reverse video (white text on black background) if
possible. How to get that?

5. At some point (I must have pressed the wrong key) the program
complained I don't have ispell. That is true, I haven't gotten around
to it and should. However, would aspell be better, as some claim, and
if so how to make emacs work with it instead?

Thanks to every one. This is great help.

A


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