I don't know where your /Applications/Emacs.app came from, but it wasn't Apple. You must have installed it at some point in the past and then nuked its support files or something. I would, in any case, delete it since you don't know how it got there. :) - Jordan On Feb 5, 2008, at 9:46 AM, skip@pobox.com wrote:
How is one supposed to find that out?
Jordan> Run emacs. :-)
Jordan> If you look at the startup screen text, you'll see: GNU Emacs Jordan> 22.1.1 (mac-apple-darwin, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2008-01-30 on Jordan> localhost
On my laptop /Applications/Emacs.app is dated Dec 3 2003. When I try to start it I get a crash dialog:
The application Emacs quit unexpectedly. Mac OS X and other applications are not affected. ... [Ignore] [Report] [Relaunch]
I imagine that got copied from my G4 laptop via SetupAssistant given what I found in the crash log:
Process: Emacs [48538] Path: /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs Identifier: com.gnu.Emacs Version: ??? (???) Code Type: PPC (Translated) Parent Process: launchd [189]
Should I have expected it to work?
There's also something called EmacsStep.app in /Applications. That starts and runs, giving this summary of who he is:
This is GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, *Step 9.0rc3) of 2007-11-25 on hermes.mshome.net
That app is dated Nov 25 2007.
-- Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/