Re: XEmacs on MacOS-X ?
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well.
>>>> "Chris" == Chris Menzel
<cmenzel(a)philebus.tamu.edu> writes:
Chris> On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:23:10 GMT, Robert Royar <royar(a)adelphia.net>
Chris> said:
> I use XEmacs on OS X (21.4.7), but have major problems with font
lock
> which make the combination of font-lock and psgml or hm-html
> unworkable.
> I depend more on XEmacs as a -vanilla application than I do as an X
> application on the Mac. I use XEmacs on Windows 2000 in its native
> form (21.5.7) and wish I could get the Mac version to work as well.
>
> I wonder if others have seen the font-lock error with the mac's XEmacs
> 21.4.x and 21.5.x versions?
Chris> Are you using the the version of psgml at
Chris> http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/psgml/
?
Chris> Ironically, the version that the xemacs site links to
Chris> (http://www.xemacs.org/Download/elispPackages.html) appears
Chris> to be specifically for GNU emacs, and lacks two files that,
Hi Chris!
The first paragraph in above page attempts to make clear that these
packages are contributed and external packages.
The XEmacs ftp site now has a contrib directory. This directory
contains packages which are not included with our distribution. Most
likely they are here because they require some porting.
The XEmacs packages need to be placed more prominently on the XEmacs
website relative to those external packages.
Please see
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html#How_to_install_the_...
for the preferred ways to install XEmacs packages for now, especially
http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/packageGuide.html#Installing_automati...
Hope this helps,
Adrian
Chris> for me anyway, were critical for getting font-lock to work
Chris> properly with psgml (as well as with the wonderful x-symbol
Chris> package), viz., psgml-xemacs.el and psgml-html.el.
Chris> Problems vanished when I switched versions. I'm running
Chris> xemacs 21.5 (beta 4) under XDarwin 1.1 (XFree86 4.2).
Chris> Chris Menzel
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