Re: AucTeX problems on Mac OSX

[Edward Dodge]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> "D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 12:37:03 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>>  
>> > If everybody else is running an X version of Emacs, is there a
>> > particular reason that you don't install an X version of Emacs
>> > for her?  I mean, it was one of the points of OS X to make that
>> > possible, wasn't it?
>> 
>> Well, as I said, I don't really know my way round on Macs. As it
>> was I had to install various developer tools, teTeX, Emacs, and
>> AucTeX. I didn't really fancy adding having to install X as well to
>> the mix.
>
> I have no clue whatsoever, too.  But it had been my impression that
> running X applications under OS X was supposed to be really easy.
> Maybe just crosscheck with some Mac-specific Usenet group how much
> of an effort it would be and just what might be entailed.  If it
> happens to be a no-brainer...

If you have a Mac version of EMACS for X-Window,  just download and
install the X-Window server from Apple (it's a double-clickable
install):

http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

OS X 10.2 required.
OS X 10.2.3 (or higher) recommended.

-- 
Edward Dodge

/GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin5.5) of 2002-10-11 on G3/