Over in Apple's UNIX Support "Discussions> Mac OS X> Using
Technologies> Unix>" area, I asked:
"I just D/Led the Public Beta of X11 for Jaguar in hopes of finding
an EMACS that is Aqua-friendly (unlike the standard character-mode
EMACS that's accessible via Terminal). Trouble is, I have NO idea
where I can find it and install it. I'm not a developer but I know
EMACS OK, and want it for its HTML mode -- 'cause I don't want to buy
yet another HTML editor."
Don MacQueen1 and Paul Schopf kindly pointed me here. It sure looks cool.
Howsomever, since (as I said) I am just some
SW-product-manager/marketeer type who knows+loves EMACS and wants to
use its HTM Language Mode, and NOT a developer, many of the terms of
art used around and about here are mysterious.
I gather that Fink apps require something like a runtime to augment
Mac OS X's built-in Darwin, and that this needs to be installed
first. Thereafter, separate Fink packages can be installed and then
made available under Aqua.
It sure sounds like I should be installing finished binaries rather
than building from the source that is also available here. Also, the
stable branch sounds like the right way for ME to go... :-) But yet
after having read thru all the docs and the FAQ etc., I am still
unsure just what to do next. Chalk it up to duffer-itude.
I'd be grateful for any info (or pointers to already-written info)
suitable for dummies that I could use as a
step-by-literal-spelled-out-step "cookbook" to take me from a
previously virgin-to-Fink Apple X Window System 0.1 (XFree86 4.2.1)
running on Mac OS X v10.2.3 to an X Windows environment where I can
run a stable version of mouse- and Aqua-friendly EMACS. That would
be some flavor of xemacs I suppose, and it doesn't have to be
cutting-edge -- just have a decent HTML mode with color-coding...
but which one... ah, there's the rub...
"They say" that the only really dumb question is the one you don't
ask, so at least I'm avoiding that... TIA.
Cheers,
/Dan
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Dan Kalikow, Ph.D.
Principal, Kalikow Consultancy
Natick, MA 01760 USA
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