mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Martin Costabel <address@hidden>]

David G. Wonnacott wrote:
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> Another option I use on the Mac is to just ignore Apple's "Terminal"
> application entirely and start an xterm in X (one typically starts
> automatically when you start the X server). The xterm mill have the
> DISPLAY set properly, and you can just type "texmacs" or whatever you
> want. 

The problem that many not-so-experienced users have with xterm is that 
apart from DISPLAY, the rest of the environment that you get by default 
in xterm is very rudimentary. So if you type "texmacs", you will 
normally get "command not found", and when you type the whole path 
"/sw/bin/texmacs", texmacs will start, but not find its helper 
applications. There are of course remedies for this, but all of them are 
more complicated than setting DISPLAY in Terminal.app or using 'open-x11'.

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Martin