Hi William, Please see below...
--Rodolfo On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 20:29, William H. Magill <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:19 AM, Rodolfo Aramayo wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > This is a MacOSX server-specific problem > > > > After applying the latest Apple server updates and port selfupdate and > updates, which included emacs, I cannot use emacs anymore > > > > After invoking emacs I get the following: > > > > "emacs: Cannot open termcap database file" > > > > Any ideas?? > > Emacs is like Perl ... it's a philosophy of life... > Totally Agree > > Been a long time -- I forget all my emacs internals ... but: > > system-uses-terminfo > Variable: Non-nil means the system uses terminfo rather than termcap. > This variable can be used by terminal emulator packages. > > I think.... > > (setq system-uses-terminfo y) > > in your .emacs file will switch to using terminfo, which is what OSX ships > with -- i.e. no termcap file, just terminfo files. > Makes sense. I tried creating a .emacs file inside the ".emacs.d/" directory where I placed "setq system-uses-terminfo y" but this did not work Was this the right thing to do? > > No guess as to what might have changed or why. (It still works nicely in > 10.6.7.) > I agree. The latest Emacs by MacPorts does work like a charm on client systems but it fails on Server systems... I guess I can always default to using the old Apple emacs in my servers... I wish I could solve this. I like the newest emacs. Thanks > > > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.6 > # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.6 > # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.6 > # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 > # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a > # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 > # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV6-7) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > T.T.F.N. > William H. Magill > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > >
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