[poulh]

I just Installed a newer version of emacs. I like it and I want to uninstall the old one.

What do I have to do?

[Zim]

Do you need to _uninstall_ it, or might you simply be able to put YOUR version of emacs ahead in your path?

In your .cshrc, you could something like

set path=(/path/to/your/emacs/bin $path )

Speaking as a 15-year unix user (but not as a true expert), that is my understanding of the preferred way to handle such a thing.

Also, Apple's installers do not seem particularly tolerant of things being moved/missing.

Mike

[Agent69]

You could also create an alias in the shell's rc file for the new version of Emacs.

[Camelot]

Surely the obvious answer is:

sudo rm `which emacs`



That said, the 'Apple' version of emacs lives in /usr/bin
For most users /bin and /sbin appear earlier in their $PATH, so putting a new copy of emacs in either of those locations would override the system version.

[poulh]

I did the sudo remove and its gone. I posted this because I thought maybe there would be files elsewhere as well.

I'm worried now because I forgot that the osX installer will croak when it can't find the old emacs. Anyone think this is going to be a problem for me?

The new emacs is up and running. Even got the version that launches in an Aqua window!

[cucswiz]

Originally posted by poulh:
I did the sudo remove and its gone. I posted this because I thought maybe there would be files elsewhere as well.

I'm worried now because I forgot that the osX installer will croak when it can't find the old emacs. Anyone think this is going to be a problem for me?

The new emacs is up and running. Even got the version that launches in an Aqua window!

What version of emacs is this - and where did you get it? anyway you can post a screenshot of the app runnin?

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[Gene Jockey]

Originally posted by poulh:
I did the sudo remove and its gone. I posted this because I thought maybe there would be files elsewhere as well.

I'm worried now because I forgot that the osX installer will croak when it can't find the old emacs. Anyone think this is going to be a problem for me?

The new emacs is up and running. Even got the version that launches in an Aqua window!

I doubt that any Apple installers willl croak over a lack of emacs. It's not exactly a mission-critical OS component. (I didn't say it wasn't useful...)

--Josh

[Zim]

Considering this is in the unix forum...

I'd suggest installing the emacs via fink, compiled for X windows (use Apple's X11 distro).

If you have fink, /sw/bin should appear ahead of Apple-supplied directories in your path, so no "removal" is needed, the fink-installed emacs will be selected since it appears earlier in the path. After the fink install of emacs do

rehash; which emacs

will confirm that /sw/bin/emacs

Plenty of reports in the OSX and Software groups of Apple's installers not liking when things in the Application folder are moved. I find that disappointing myself, but this works around any such problems nicely, and again, I think is more "unix" in philosophy.

Either way, welcome to emacs, its a great editor. Learn to customize it (define your own commands, key-sequences, add packages) and it becomes even more powerful

Cheers,
Mike