#49564: xemacs on El Capitan ----------------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: burkhard.militzer@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.3.4 Resolution: | Keywords: Port: xemacs | ----------------------------------+-------------------------------- Comment (by burkhard.militzer@…): Replying to [comment:7 dstrubbe@…]:
You can always go back to a previously installed version if you are having trouble with a newer one: e.g. 'port activate xemacs @21.4.22'.
Unfortunately, I lost all previously installed ports when I upgrade to Mac OS to El Capitan. Now, there is no "xemacs @21.4.22" to be activated. When I instead type "sudo port install xemacs@21.4.22" it installs version "xemacs-21.5.16".
Ok, never mind that suggestion then. You cannot specify which version you want to install at the command line; the only way to get older ones is described here: [wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort].
If this version is crashing all the time, I guess we'll need to go back to 21.4.22, as I assume that it is due to bugs as opposed to anything we can fix in the packaging. (Incidentally, note that there are also other emacs ports, such as emacs-mac-app, which is what I typically use.)
Do you have an opinion on the issue in #19833, namely whether 21.4.22 was able to work with the sumo packages?
Yes, the packages worked fine for me in version 21.4.22. Any 21.4 version could possibly work fine. I can re-confirm that 21.5.16 crashes often and behaves weird in some situation (e.g. curses jumps to a new location when you click into an xemacs window.) Burkhard -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/49564#comment:12> MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X