That works! It's funny but I'm kinda new to the whole `alias` thing, so I hadn't even thought of doing that. I really need to remember that's there.
I guess we'll assume that the issue was somewhere in the fact that I was symlinking it. Thanks again, Ryan! On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 13, 2008, at 18:22, Tim Visher wrote: > >> I'm attempting to make Emacs.app my default installation. I read >> somewhere that one way to do this is to symlink >> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs onto your path. >> >> What I've done so far is to `ln -s >> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs ~/.bin/emacs` >> where `~/.bin` is on my $PATH. Unfortunately, when I run this, I get >> the following error: >> >> Warning: arch-dependent data dir >> >> (/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_aqua_emacs-app/work/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec/emacs/23.0.60/i386-apple-darwin9.5.0/) >> does not exist. >> Warning: arch-independent data dir >> >> (/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_aqua_emacs-app/work/emacs-23.0.0_NS-9.0rc3/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/) >> does not exist. > > Odd. Those directories have of course been cleaned up after the build; Emacs > shouldn't be referring to them. > >> Cannot open load file: encoded-kb >> >> What's even stranger is that if I actually run >> `/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs` directly, it >> works exactly as I want it to. >> >> Anyway, ideas? Thanks in advance! > > If all you're trying to have happen is for Emacs.app to open when you type > "emacs" in the Terminal, then you can create an alias in your .bashrc: > > alias emacs='open -a "/Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app"' > > > -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
