Saturday, October 23, 2010

Fullscreen Emacs on Mac OS X from tarball

Emacs 23.2 in trunk doesn't support fullscreen on Mac OS X.

Japanese hacker typester do a patch for this.

Following is a quick step-by-step instruction to compile emacs 23.2 supporting fullscreen with this patch.


cd /tmp

wget http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/GNU/gnu/emacs/emacs-23.2.tar.gz

wget http://github.com/downloads/typester/emacs/feature-fullscreen.patch

tar xzvf emacs-23.2.tar.gz

cd emacs-23.2

patch -p1 < /tmp/feature-fullscreen.patch

./configure --with-ns

make

sudo make install

mv nextstep/Emacs.app ~/Applications



Reference:
[1] Emacs Wiki
[2] sanityinc.com
[3] Citizen428

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