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

[Erwin Panen <erwinpanen@fastmail.fm>]

Juan, wow, that was fast :-)

How do you get your lisp folder with all the typical .el files on your Mac?
I can't seem to find bbdb..
Do you install each and every manually?

Muchas gracias :-)

Erwin

On 29/07/2010 16:04, Juan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Erwin Panen wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> In order to have the same .emacs both in mac&  linux, I use the
> following contitionals in several places in my .emacs:
>
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ;;;;  MAC ONLY MAC ONLY ------------------------------
> (when (eq system-type 'darwin)
>    (set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH)
>    (add-to-list 'exec-path "/Users/jips/bin" )
>
>    ;; MAC ONLY: locate ->  mdfind (spotlight)
>    (setq locate-command "mdfind")
>
>    ;; command-` to switch frames
>    (global-set-key [?\M-`] 'other-frame) ;  # This sets the key binding
>
>    (setq mac-option-key-is-meta nil)
>    (setq mac-command-key-is-meta t)
>    (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta)
>    (setq mac-option-modifier nil)
>
>    ;; JABBER
>    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs_stuff/emacs-jabber-0.8.0")
>    (require 'jabber-autoloads)
> )
>
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You may find appropriate tests for your winXP, etc.
>
>    
>> 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)
>>      
> Maybe the above (setq mac... statements help with getting the correct
> behaviour for Command and Option(Alt).
>
>    
>> I also suffer from keyboard shortcut difficulties. (I'm on azerty /
>> laptop keyb)
>>      
> Ugh! Fortunately I live 11000km away from AZERTY keyboards.
>
> I use both english and spanish keyboard layouts. The Alt key works OK
> for special keys (accents, etc.).
>
>    
>> 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?
>>      
> A +
> .j.
>