Seiji Zenitani
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Thu Sep 8 22:06:08 JST 2005
Hi, On 2005/09/06, at 8:52, Nadeem Faruque wrote: > For a complicated reason I need to be able to run emacs from a a > symbolic link at ~/emacs. > > This was working and I am unsure what has changed since I last used > it (perhaps a recent security update?). > > The problem was present on the June release of Carbon Emacs Package, > and isn't better with the August one. > > The installation works fine whether opened by clicking the icon, or > from the Terminal: > >> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs >> > works fine and launches emacs in a separate window. > > But when I try to use the symbolic link I run into problems. > >> ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs >> > appears to be fine, but when I try to use it I run into trouble: > > >> ~/emacs >> > emacs opens in -nw mode (i.e. in the Terminal window) with the > Messages > > Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/ > Resources/libexec/emacs/22.0.50/powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0/) does not > exist. > (/Users/faruque/emacs) > Loading disp-table...done > byte-code: Finder got an error: Can't continue . > > > NB The June release of Carbon Emacs Package was behaving the same, > but actually tried to open the separate emacs window and then it sat > there half-drawn. > > NB2 I've tried > >> ln /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs >> ln -h /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/emacs >> ln -s /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacs ~/emacs >> > etc but without any change Usually emacs runs fine when one types the below command. /somewhere/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs Since Carbon Emacs is re-locatable (you can set its icon anywhere you would like), it searches its libraries inside the application bundle, based on its path (/somewhere/else/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs) or its prefix-parameter at compilation time (/Applications/Emacs.app/ Contents/Resources). And so Emacs might be confused when one tries to launch it via its symbolic link. How about using the below script as ~/emacs or ~/emacs.sh? #!/bin/sh /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs # end -- Seiji
