How do I actually start the browser?

[togakangaroo]

I feel like this is a stupid question but I've not used macports before.

I followed the instructions, got it running, then did

sudo port install next

(Suggestion 1: Yall just say in the docs to "install from macports" but not the actual name of the thing to install! - I'm still not sure that next was the right thing.)

Now....what am I actually supposed to do afterwards?

I don't see any new executables named next so - how do I run it?

How do I run it inside emacs? I assume there's some sort of package to install maybe? But which one?

(Suggestion 2: I think maybe we need a paragraph on the above)

[jmercouris]

Hi, no worries :-)

There should be an application bundle in /Applications, it will be called Next.app. This is currently a problem, but the next release of Next will be as a downloadable application bundle, so it shouldn't be too bad. In either case, the echo message upon successful installation of Next in MacPorts could be a little bit more helpful!

You can't run (at this time) Next within Emacs, though that would be quite cool...

[oscarfroberg]

No worries @togakangaroo, it took me way longer than that, and I'm not even there yet.

Took me probably half an hour to decipher the installation instructions, having never used Macports before, only Homebrew (turned out the issue was trying to install it in/from a home directory, not /private/tmp). And now the installation has taken 1h10m, so far, taking up 3 GB of space, building a fuckload of dependencies (among them Xorg...?) ...

Might not be Next's fault, but certainly doesn't seem like a "lightweight browser" to me in this regard. 🙄