ESS on Panther

[Kieran Healy]

Hi again -

I didn't experience any problems with 5.2.0beta3 and the mindlube Emacs
21.3.50. Everything worked as expected Similarly no problems with Enrico
Franconi's just-released "Enhanced Carbon Emacs" binary
(http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/enhanced-carbon-emacs/), which is built
from a more recent CVS distribution. (Its enhancements are some
latex-friendly additions.)

Best,

Kieran

On 12/16/03 2:47 AM, "Rodney Sparapani" <rsparapa at mcw.edu> wrote:

>> Hi -
>> 
>> I upgraded to OS X 10.3 (Panther) and installed the carbon build of GNU
>> Emacs 21.3.50.1 from http://mindlube.com/products/emacs/index.html.
>> 
>> When I load it, attempting to initialize ESS in the normal way in my
>> .emacs
>> -- (load "~/elisp/ess-5.1.24/lisp/ess-site") -- gives the following
>> error:
>> 
>> An error has occurred while loading `/Users/kjhealy/.emacs':
>> 
>> Invalid read syntax: ?
>> 
>> Which is sadly not very informative to me :(
>> 
>> Is this a known problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Kieran
>> 
> 
> Kieran:
> 
> Not a known problem.  I'm using Jaguar, but I haven't heard of any
> problems with respect to Panther.  Two things to try besides Tony's
> advice.  The version of GNU Emacs that you are using is an older beta.
> A more recent beta version is 21.3.50.5.  See
> http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/ for details.  Also, your version
> of ESS is a little dated.  We haven't released a gamma since then, but
> there is a more recent beta, 5.2.0beta3, at StatLib and the ESS web
> page at
> http://www.analytics.washington.edu/Zope/wikis/ess/FrontPage
> 
> Rodney
> 

-- 
Kieran Healy, http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kjhealy
Assistant Professor, Sociology Dept, University of Arizona.
Research Fellow, SPT, RSSS, Australian National University.