Just to be clear, you don't need to be a user of macPorts. The railwaycat cask is a homebrew cask, so it is really just another homebrew formula. Once installed, brew update/upgrade works just the same as if you were using the 'native' emacs build. Victor Tsaran <vtsaran(a)gmail.com> writes: > Sure, that's probably true if you are a user of MacPorts. :) > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 5:43 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Victor, > > good point. I had forgotten about this issue, primarily because I'm not > impacted by it. > > Note that the only 'solution' is not just editing to remove calls to > make-thread and replace with funcall. You can also install the mac-ports > version of emacs using the railwaycat/emacsport/emacs-mac cask. I've > been using this version without issue and without needing to modify > emacspeak. I think it also has some other advantages and find it works > better on the mac than a native build - for example, it has a setting > which allows you to turn off voiceOver when running emacs, so you can > avoid the issue of voiceOver and emacspeak fighting against each other > an not need to turn off voiceOver when using emacspeak. It also seems to > integrate better with the rest of macOS and I don't need to do anything > 'special' to get command/option keys working consistently. I've found no > compatibility issues or noticed anything negative compared to using the > native build. It is also at version 27.2. > > See https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport for details on > how to use this formula with homebrew. You need to remove any other > emacs installed via homebrew before installing it. > > Victor Tsaran <vtsaran(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello Mohammed! > > I filed a bug against Emacs developers on precisely this issue. We have discussed it just a few weeks ago. > > While they are figuring out the cause, which I hope will happen soon or not at all, the only fix that worked is what Raman suggested in one of > his > > earlier messages. Namely: > > > > 1. Open emacspeak.el in your emacspeak/lisp directory. > > 2. Substitute any calls of "make-thread" with "funcall" (there should be only two occurrences), then save. > > 3. Recompile by running "make emacspeak" in your "emacspeak" directory. > > You should now be good to go in both Terminal as well the GUI, i.e. if you decide to run Emacs app from the Applications folder. > > > > Hope this helps. > > Victor > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 4:30 PM Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Here is the output of echo $path > > > > /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin > > > > and here is the output of which emacs: > > > > /usr/local/bin/emacs > > > > Note that when I open emacs without loading emacspeak-setup.el, I get the emacs version is 27.2. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Mohammed > > > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 1:23 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I think we first need to verify that your path variable is correct and > > your running the version of emacs installed by homebrew. Can you run in > > a terminal the following commands and paste the output in a reply? > > > > echo $PATH > > > > which emacs > > > > and then try running > > > > /usr/local/bin/emacs > > > > and see if that makes any difference. > > > > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hi Tim, > > > > > > I used: > > > > > > brew install -cask emacs > > > > > > Then, I built emacspeak using: > > > > > > make config > > > make emacspeak > > > > > > Then, I added the following to .emacs.el: > > > > > > (load-file “~/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el”) > > > When I remove this line from the .emacs.el, emacs works normally. > > > > > > The version of emacs is 27.2 > > > When I use the command > > > Emacs > > > > > > I get the error mentioned in the last email. > > > When I use the command: > > > > > > emacspeak > > > > > > I get command not found. > > > > > > Thank you > > > Mohammed > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 8:16 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > How did you install Emacs? What version is it? > > > > > > What is the exact command your running in the terminal to start emacsthe > > > > > > What do you have in your emacs init file? > > > > > > This looks like a low level emacs error and not specific to emacspeak. > > > The error seems related to memory allocation. My guess is that the build > > > of emacs has not worked correctly. > > > > > > Make sure your running a recent version of Emacs (macOS comes with a > > > very old version of Emacs which will not work with emacspeak). > > > > > > Mohammed Alderweesh <alderweesh.m(a)gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > Hello list, > > > > > > > > My name is Mohammed Alderweesh. This is my first time posting to this list. I am trying to run emacs on Mac os x, I installed the > > required > > > packages, > > > > but when I try running it from the terminal I get the following error: > > > > > > > > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.372 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSButton: > > 0x7fbe575bced0>) to be > > > less > > > > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation. > > > > > > > > 2021-04-20 05:17:01.377 Emacs-x86_64-10_14[10274:228475] Warning: Expected min height of view: (<NSButton: > > 0x7fbe576376c0>) to be > > > less > > > > than or equal to 30 but got a height of 32.000000. This error will be logged once per view in violation. > > > > > > > > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** error for object 0x7000062509f8: pointer being freed was not allocated > > > > > > > > Emacs-x86_64-10_14(10274,0x700005a4f000) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > > > > > > > > Fatal error 4: Illegal instruction > > > > > > > > zsh: abort emacs > > > > > > > > Can you please help me into how to run the software? > > > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > Mohammed > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > > > > > -- > > > Tim Cross > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > > > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > > > -- > > Tim Cross > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emacspeak mailing list -- emacspeak(a)emacspeak.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to emacspeak-leave(a)emacspeak.org > > -- > Tim Cross -- Tim Cross
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