[OS X TeX] Carbon Emacs getting AUCTeX

[Norman Gall]

On 21-Feb-05, at 16:31, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 21.02.2005 um 23:39 schrieb Norman Gall:
>
>>> One thing I've found is that the new Japanese Carbon Emacs comes  
>>> without aspell dictionaries. If your own /sw/bin/aspell programme  
>>> fails, there's another one in  
>>> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin.
>>>
>>
>> That one looks for libraries on /Volumes/Emacs
>
> Did you change at line #154: (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") to  
> (setq ispell-program-name "/sw/bin/aspell") and change two line  
> further the argument to become either the path to your aspell  
> dictionaries or empty? Even when your own aspell works correctly it is  
> misguided by line #156.
>

I did and it still gagged.

So, I thought to myself, what _exactly_ makes this emacs look where it  
does for libraries, etc.? Well,  
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/21.3.50/site- 
lisp/site-start.el came to mind.

Looking at it, we find entries to load auctex, aspell, and eblook. I  
commented these out and all was well. Pointing the ispell-program-name  
at /sw/bin/aspell worked fine, and auctex was loaded. I am going to  
check to see _exactly_ what is loaded and try to point everything out  
of Emacs.app and into my own /usr/local and /sw trees.... at least  
until the developer sorts things out.

Of course, I had to modify my .emacs slightly. This thing doesn't take  
note of .MacOS/environments.plist. So I had to use the following:

(setenv "PATH"
   
"/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/ 
X11R6/bin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current:/Users/ 
gall/bin")

(setq exec-path (append exec-path
      '("/sw/bin"
        "/usr/local/bin"
        "/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current")))



I would also add that since I use emacs installed through fink and I  
like to isntall auctex, etc. myself, I have the following in my .emacs  
as well.

(setq load-path
       (mapcar 'expand-file-name
               (append '(
			"~/.emacs-lisp"
                         "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp"
			)
		      load-path
		      )))

All is well now. I can hardly wait until the next release. :)

ng


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