Unable to get xemacs working on a mac

Question

I installed xemacs using macports, and then when I try to open it I see this -

$xemacs Error: Shell widget xemacs has zero width and/or height

I tried to google for this error message, but there were no helpful hits. How can I get xemacs to start without this error? Thanks

You can also try out Carbon Emacs if you don' t like Aquamacs customizations. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/carbonemacspackage.html — apod, Jan 03 '10 at 22:58
I installed aquamacs, seems to do the job and has a fairly decent user manual — Schitti, Jan 03 '10 at 23:04

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 03 '10 at 22:49

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To eliminate the problem completely and to bring some joy to your life.... try Aquamacs.

p.s. stupid question, but do you have the x-server installed ?

answered Jan 03 '10 at 22:49

Hassan Syed

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