Re: Help installing org-mode on a MAC please?

[Erwin Panen <erwinpanen@fastmail.fm>]

Hi Juan,

Thanks a lot for your information and help!
I've edited my makefile according to your example, and everything ran 
without any error, so thanks a lot for that.

I must admit being  somehow confused with all my previous trials 
dispersed over the past couple of months....
I know I've also installed fink, and I also have emacs under fink somewhere.
Next to that I also had Aquamacs, and Emcsformacosx.

In the mean time I decided to stick with Emacsformacosx for the time 
being, the reason being that I want to have as much "standard" behaviour 
as possible.

I'm also looking into setting up org-mode with MobileOrg. I use DropBox 
for cloud storage.

Now I copied over my .emacs config file from my winXP box to my Mac. Of 
course this is a lot different if only for the path and pathstructure.
Now I seem to find e.g. that emacsformacosx is incomplete (if I'm correct).
I don't find any bbdb nor the typical lisp folder....
(GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.29 of 
2010-05-09 on black.local)

I also suffer from keyboard shortcut difficulties. (I'm on azerty / 
laptop keyb)
I'm totally unable to get square brackets on my Mac. I can type them in 
other applications, but not in Emacs.
Do you know of a way around this?

Thanks for helping out,

Erwin


On 12/07/2010 16:30, Juan wrote:
> Hi Erwin,
>
> I'm using Mac also (not Aquamacs emacs, but EmacsForMacOSX instead).
>
> XEmacs is a completely different branch of Emacs, which I don't think
> is available for OSX.
>
> Then there is the text-mode emacs you run from the terminal.
>
> And then there is the emacs you installed (Aquamacs), which runs on
> its own graphics window (outside Terminal.app).
>
> So don't confuse those 3 emacs versions.
>
> You only need to install LaTeX if you want to build the documentation
> (make doc). This is not strictly necessary.
>
> Also, I have to modify the Makefile from org-mode to fit my emacs
> installation. Aquamacs emacs should be similar, just check the exact
> location of the Emacs application and change accordingly.
>
> This is how my org-mode Makefile looks:
>
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------
>     ##----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     ##  YOU MUST EDIT THE FOLLOWING LINES
>     ##----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     # Name of your emacs binary
>     EMACS=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs
>
>     # Where local software is found
>     prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app
>
>     # Where local lisp files go.
>     lispdir = $(prefix)/Contents/Resources/lisp/org
>
>     # Where info files go.
>     infodir = $(prefix)/Contents/Resources/info
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The rest of the Makefile you leave as is.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> .j.
>
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:43:26PM +0200, Erwin Panen wrote:
>    
>> I recently switched over to Mac, so I'm not familiar yet with all
>> inside-out Mac. At first I installed Aquamacs, but to be more
>> compatible I'd prefer to keep up with org-mode using git.
>>
>> I managed to install homebrew, next git, and was able to use git to
>> get a clone of org-mode so that's allright.
>> (using git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git)
>> Next I tried to follow the FAQ: How do I keep current with Org mode
>> development? (http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#keeping-current-with-Org-mode-development)
>>
>> When I do: $ cd org-mode&&  make&&  make doc&&  make install
>> everything seems to go allright, but I get an error in the end
>> complaining about LateX not being installed.
>> So I installed MacTEX and tried running the above once more, with
>> the same error.
>>
>> When I open up a terminal window and issue emacs, it opens up emacs
>> allright, but I find no xemacs? Is this not included with
>> org-mode.git?
>>