[Pythonmac-SIG] a beginner's list

David Reed dreedmac at columbus.rr.com
Thu Feb 9 00:34:47 CET 2006


On Feb 8, 2006, at 1:40 PM, linc wrote:

>>
>>                 Full disclosure:  I'm a UNIX person.  The first thing
>>                 I do when I get a
>>                 new Mac is make sure X11 is installed on it, and  
>> in my
>>                 Login Items.
>>                 The second thing I do is build an X11 version of GNU
>>                 Emacs from the
>>                 CVS repository.
>>
> Hi,
> This caught my eye.  I have been using a Cocoa-based Emacs for a  
> year or
> two, and it only has one font, kind of clumsy on my clamshell with the
> low resolution.  Any tips on doing this, or do you know of any binary
> builds available?  A real Emacs with X support would be awesome.
>
> Thanks,
> linc


Darwinports and/or fink has emacs w/ X11 support.

I believe you have to specify +x11 or something like that when  
installing with fink.

You can reply privately to this - just curious where at OSU you work?  
Do you do Mac programming there?

Dave



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