Re: EmacsW32 invocation options

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 05.05.2007 um 02:58 schrieb David Kastrup:

> Well, I had the doubtful pleasure of getting to try showing someone on
> a conference how to work with it.  What a piece of crock.  C-x 3 and
> your window splits vertically, showing the same buffer in both
> windows.  So far, so good.  C-x b and a separate frame opens.  C-x 4 b
> and another frame opens.  It is impossible to actually switch buffers
> in one of the vertically aligned windows: instead new frames open
> every time.
>
> After a while, I give up on it and tell the person to get and install
> Carbonemacs which is supposed to be less "Maclike", a euphemism for
> "braindead" that more likely than not is unjust to Apple.

Aquamacs Emacs seems indeed to be stuck in the farthest end of a dead- 
end street: recently it stopped working completely when my ~/.emacs  
file (for versions 20...23, running with or without windows) is  
present (of course it has its own preferences files hidden here and  
there and elsewhere). It just loops endlessly (but *I* don't let it  
that long!). Maybe this lack of backward compatibility is its  
particular Mac likeliness. And this might be in the diagonally away  
corner of Apple's HID (Human Interface Definition guide line). (At  
least there was an option to make it create new frames only when its  
user wishes this.)

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  Pete

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