Re: [Macaulay2] Running Macaulay2 with Aquamacs

[Wouter van Heijst]

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 23:55:29 -0700, CommAlgebra wrote:
> After reading the instructions for installation, and doing the necessary
> steps, I am able to run M2 from Terminal (just by typing "M2", and exiting
> by "exit"). My question is about Aquamacs. I installed Aquamacs, and
> launched Aquamacs. But now I have no idea how to get M2 to run from here.
> According to the "ReadMe" for M2, it says that "After downloading it
> [Aquamacs] and moving it to your Applications folder, it is ready to run
> Macaulay2."
>
> Could someone shed a light on how to run M2 using Aquamacs?

I'm assuming the Emacs instructions should work, in which case:

http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/doc/Macaulay2-1.6/share/doc/Macaulay2/Macaulay2Doc/html/_using_sp__Macaulay2_spwith_spemacs.html


So try (load "M2-init") and M-x M2 to start a Macaulay2 session. If
that doesn't work you may need to do something like

(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/")

adjusting the paths to make sense for your install.

Cheers,
Wouter van Heijst

[CommAlgebra]

Thanks Wouter! 

I am looking at the emacs tutorial. So I typed "emacs" in Terminal and emacs started running. It says in the link you mentioned that "If you are a newcomer to emacs, you should spend a few minutes going through the emacs tutorial"... I still don't know how to get M2 to run. Once I run emacs, and start typing, the red message shows up saying

;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation.    

;; If you want to create a file, visit that file with C-x C-f,                  

;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer.  

I typed (load "M2-init") and pressed enter; nothing happens. In the file "M2-emacs-hlp.txt" it says that 

We assume you have taught emacs how to find Macaulay2's files, as described in

the previous sections, and that emacs is loading the file M2-init.el

successfully. 

I am not sure what previous section the manual is referring to. I would appreciate some further help.

Thanks again!

[Michael Stillman]

When you ran M2 from the terminal, did you run "setupEmacs()"  (without the quotes)?  I think that is mentioned in the readme file for macosx release (on the disk image).  If not, then we need to put fix that!

After doing this, you need to exit M2, and then log off and then log on.  aquamacs should then work with M2.  I have set my  f11 and f12 keys to not be used by Launchpad, Expose, etc (I think this is explained in that same readme file).  At that point,  in aquamacs, hitting the f12 key should start M2.  If it doesn't, please let us know.  Alternatively, you should be able to: press option and X keys at the same time (in emacs), and then type M2, and then the return key.  That should start Macaulay2.

Best,

Mike

On May 7, 2013, at 2:55 AM, CommAlgebra <sham...@gmail.com> wrote:

After reading the instructions for installation, and doing the necessary steps, I am able to run M2 from Terminal (just by typing "M2", and exiting by "exit"). My question is about Aquamacs. I installed Aquamacs, and launched Aquamacs. But now I have no idea how to get M2 to run from here. According to the "ReadMe" for M2, it says that "After downloading it [Aquamacs] and moving it to your Applications folder, it is ready to run Macaulay2."

Could someone shed a light on how to run M2 using Aquamacs? 

Thanks a lot!

P.S. I am using Mac OS X 10.8, if that is relevant here.

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[CommAlgebra]

Thank you very much, Mike. Everything works now. The problem was that my F12 key wasn't functioning properly. So I fixed it using the instructions in the following page:

http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/12/switch-your-mac-function-keys-to-work-as-standard-function-keys/