Re: Enhanced Carbon Emacs (version 2.1, emacs 21.3.50.4) : trying to save as mac-roman

[Steven Tamm]

The binary distributions of GNU Emacs on versiontracker are woefully out of date.  I had an email conversation with the guy who posted the "Enhanced Version" and we sort of agreed to disagree.  In any case, the version you have is almost 3 months old and many, many bugs have been fixed.  

If you do not need to specialized LaTeX support in the "enhanced" version I would suggest pulling down the CVS,  following the directions at savannah:  See http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs .  Once you have that, and assuming you have installed the OSX developer tools, all you have to do is follow the directions in the mac/INSTALL, which contains the three commands you need to execute in the terminal.

The bigger question is what to do about the binary distributions of 21.3 that are floating around with bugs that people report.  The ones on versiontracker all do the wrong thing, either include more than what is needed (like this one with TeX stuff), or less than what is needed, or install in the wrong place, like in /usr/bin.   I'm kind of regretting the whole make-package script.

-Steven

On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 12:01  PM, Antoine Gautier wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Here is a copy of a post I made on gnu.emacs.help, I am beginning to suspect that I either found a bug or that my installation is flawed.
>
> I just installed Enhanced Carbon Emacs (version 2.1, emacs 21.3.50.4)
> on mac os X 10.2.4, and I have no succes trying to save mac-roman
> encoded files (saving as latin1 works fine).
>
> I tried adding a number of things to my .emacs, such as
>
> (prefer-coding-system 'mac-roman-mac)
> (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'mac-roman-mac)
> (set default-buffer-file-coding-system 'mac-roman-mac)
>
> with no result. The files do get saved, but are unreadable by other mac
> apps. Even re-opening them with emacs I get a bunch of ????'s (only
> accentuated characters such as é, à, ô, etc. come out OK : 'été' gets saved as 'é?é').
>
> Trying to set the coding from emacs (c-x ret f mac-roman) does not help either.
>
> For some odd reason I can correctly open mac-roman files, but saving
> them does not work.
>
> Also : whenever I lauch emacs.app I get the following message on console.app :
>
> ## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
>
> but lauching terminal.app does that too.
>
> Maybe it has to do with the many emacs's installed in /usr/bin (?)
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated !
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Antoine Gautier 
>
> Faculté des Sciences de l'administration
> Université Laval 
> internet : http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/gautiera/
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