Finally I have a sensible editor installed on my Intel iMac. It's called Carbon XEmacs (aka. just emacs :)
All thanks to Andrew Choi. He's prepared two patches that makes this possible. The version I got was XEmacs-21.5.23 plus two additional patches from Andrew for Intel support and proper "Quit Application" connection with the OS. Thankfully nothing was difficult because everything went smoothly without any error messages anywhere. I did have to do some reading, searching and downloading. The hardest task was to find Andrews Carbon XEmacs site to just get started. If you also have an (Intel) mac os x and want to install XEmacs too, here are some notes on what I did:
- Download
xemacs-21.5.23.tar.gz
from this site - Download
xemacs-sumo.tar.bz2
from this site - Download the matching version diff (with highest "b" number) from this site (eg.
xemacs-21.5.23-carbon-b4.diff
). Also downloadintel-mac-encoding-fix.diff
andquit-application-apple-event.diff
from the same repository. - Unpack the downloaded files and follow the instructions from the bottom of this page
Note1: You need to do all the patches before you run
sh < build-app.sh
from thecarbon
directory. Note: To do the patches, I found I had to use'-p1' for the carbon file and no-p
for the smaller ones. You might need tocd
into the correct directory. - When it's been installed, it's created a file called
XEmacs.app
. Copy this manually to your Applications folder. - The last thing to do is to install all the necessary packages such as python highlighting. Unpack the file
xemacs-sumo.tar.bz2
into/Applications/XEmacs.app/Contents/Resources/lib/xemacs/
- Enjoy!
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