emacs: standard input is not a tty

[Cow Loon]

I'm trying to add emacs to apple's cocoa wm menu. For my local machine if I simply add "emacs" I get an error on the console that standard input is not a tty when I try to run it. I cluelessly tried:

emacs -t /dev/tty

with no change.

Any thoughts?

[lurk]

Which emacs are you trying to add? The terminal version that came with OSX? One of the Xwindows versions? The Carbonized version?

-Eric

[Cow Loon]

Originally posted by lurk
Which emacs are you trying to add? The terminal version that came with OSX? One of the Xwindows versions? The Carbonized version?

-Eric

The X Windowing System version

[Cow Loon]

The emacs in question comes from Fink.

I should point out that what I've been doing since my attempts at putting it in the menu are failing, is running xterm and then running emacs from there (which successfully runs the X11 version of emacs which is in my path).

[lurk]

Try using the explicit path I think it is picking up the terminal version. That is add /sw/bin/emacs to the menu. You may also have to add (push "/sw/bin" exec-path) to your .emacs to get all the goodies to work.

-Eric

[Cow Loon]

That's it. Thanks!