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[Alexander Hansen <address@hidden>]

We often do it another way in Fink:  we create a wrapper script for the
real executable within the application bundle which loads the Fink
environment.  If you want to try that, contact me offlist (since this is
a highly platform-specific issue) and I can show you examples where I've
done that in my own packages.

Hopefully Martin Costabel, Fink's texmacs maintainer, is following this
thread.  If we don't hear from him, it might be worth dropping him a
note directly about the issue.

David G. Wonnacott wrote:
> I've been using the X11 version of TeXmacs from fink happily from some
> time, and may try the Cocoa version some time, so thanks for this
> information.
> 
> I can't speak to the details of specific TeXmacs features, but I have
> one thought about the "double-click vs. command-line" issue, based on
> my experience running other programs in these ways. Specifically, note
> that (as of the last time I checked) the MacOS does _not_ run any of
> the usual shell set-up files (e.g. .bashrc) when you log in to the
> GUI. This means that things started with double-click will _not_ be
> run with, for example, the PATH setting you establish in your .bashrc
> (whereas of course anything started from a bash command line will).
> 
> There is some _other_ way to define values for environment variables
> on MacOS; the descriptions I've seen (and used) involve using a GUI
> tool to edit some sort of property list (using Google is probably
> better than relying on my memory here, but contact me if you can't
> find what you need).
> 
> Dave Wonnacott
> 
> 
>    Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:09:47 +0200
>    From: Michael Lachmann <address@hidden>
> 
>    Here are just a few comments about the cocoa version of TeXmacs. This
>    was installed on OSX using fink (it is version 1.0.7.2). I know that
>    the behaviour I'm reporting probably isn't relevant for TeXmacs
>    development, but still - if someone tries to use it, it might be
>    relevant to them....
> 
>    On fink, the cocoa version of TeXmacs is installed in
>    /sw/Applications/Texmacs.app
> 
>    * For some reason, TeXmacs behaves differently if you double-click on
>    the app icon, or you start it from the command line using
>    /sw/Applications/TeXmacs.app/Contents/MacOS/TeXmacs
>    The command line version works better - you can see included images.
>    In the version started by clicking on the app, images appear empty. I
>    suspect this is a problem with PATH - finding gs.
> 
>    * It seems that dialogs look for the wrong extensions, or specify old
>    vs. new file wrongly.
> 
> 
>    Thus,
>    Opening a file (file->load...) lets me chose a file with extension
>    .tm, but it behaves like a "new file" dialog - so if I
>    chose an existing file, a dialog comes up saying that the file already
>    exists, and asks if I want to overwrite it.
> 
>    Insert image only accepts files with the extension ".tm", instead of
>    graphics files.
> 
> 
>    * Something doesn't work quite right with mouse clicks. Clicking in a
>    certain region seems to behave like a double-click or a click-drag.
>    Once that happens, it is pretty much impossible to move the cursor
>    using the mouse, only with the arrows keys. (But it is very hard to
>    use TeXmacs using only arrow keys)
> 
>    * Copy and paste works nicely between TeXmacs and OSX. You have to
>    chose menu->edit->copy or esc-w, and not edit->copy or apple-c.
>    Copying figures doesn't seem to work, yet.
> 


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Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison