Re: Installing easymacs on OSX

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 06:46:30PM +0900, JC Helary wrote:
> On OSX too I like to leave my home directory clean as much as I can  
> so I used the above line to set HOME to something like "~/Library/ 
> Application Support/Emacs" (I also tried Preferences).

Well, on OS X these files will be hidden, so I don't think the clutter
problem is a big deal.  It might be that Carbon Emacs Package depends
on the initial value of HOME, and then Easymacs gets another, and that
causes the problem.  You could try setting HOME externally, before
running Emacs, rather than setting it in your .emacs file.

> Although I have no idea why the above line disrupted the install, it  
> does happen that removing it altogether from .emacs properly loaded  
> the .el files and seemingly installed things succesfully.

At the moment, I do not have access to a Mac machine to do any
testing, so unfortunately I cannot investigate the problem.  If I
understand correctly, Easymacs loads without errors when you do not
change the value of HOME.  So at the moment I would say you'll have to
tolerate that limitation.

Best wishes,

Peter




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