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The O.P. transposed numbers -- error deduced by examining the current build presently available at the web address provided by the O.P.
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This has got to be a silly question...

From a terminal window, to start emacs which comes with mac osx (version 22.1.1), I just type

> emacs

First set of questions: where is this emacs installed? where is the alias defined?

Now, I just discovered (!) how old this version is, and so I installed the latest version from http://emacsformacosx.com. When I type

> emacs

I still launch the old version (22.1.1) and not the new one. On the other hand, if I type in a terminal window

open -a emacs

then the new version (2325.53.1) is launched.

Second set of questions: why is that? where is the alias for this other emacs? how does the system choose which version to launch?

This has got to be a silly question...

From a terminal window, to start emacs which comes with mac osx (version 22.1.1), I just type

> emacs

First set of questions: where is this emacs installed? where is the alias defined?

Now, I just discovered (!) how old this version is, and so I installed the latest version from http://emacsformacosx.com. When I type

> emacs

I still launch the old version (22.1.1) and not the new one. On the other hand, if I type in a terminal window

open -a emacs

then the new version (23.5.1) is launched.

Second set of questions: why is that? where is the alias for this other emacs? how does the system choose which version to launch?

This has got to be a silly question...

From a terminal window, to start emacs which comes with mac osx (version 22.1.1), I just type

> emacs

First set of questions: where is this emacs installed? where is the alias defined?

Now, I just discovered (!) how old this version is, and so I installed the latest version from http://emacsformacosx.com. When I type

> emacs

I still launch the old version (22.1.1) and not the new one. On the other hand, if I type in a terminal window

open -a emacs

then the new version (25.3.1) is launched.

Second set of questions: why is that? where is the alias for this other emacs? how does the system choose which version to launch?

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two versions of emacs on mac osx - where are they

This has got to be a silly question...

From a terminal window, to start emacs which comes with mac osx (version 22.1.1), I just type

> emacs

First set of questions: where is this emacs installed? where is the alias defined?

Now, I just discovered (!) how old this version is, and so I installed the latest version from http://emacsformacosx.com. When I type

> emacs

I still launch the old version (22.1.1) and not the new one. On the other hand, if I type in a terminal window

open -a emacs

then the new version (23.5.1) is launched.

Second set of questions: why is that? where is the alias for this other emacs? how does the system choose which version to launch?