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- Subject: Re: emacs under X
- Message-ID: <GTHAKER.92Nov11132510@trantor.atl.ge.com>
- From: gthaker@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker)
- Date: 11 Nov 92 13:25:10
- References: <Nov.9.02.28.29.1992.15908@remus.rutgers.edu> <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk's message of 9 Nov 92 19:04:10 GMT
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- In article <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk> A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk (Alan Bleasby) writes:
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- >This is probably a real easy question, but does anyone know how to make emacs
- >work under X? It seems to want to stay under the Xterm window.
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- Not that easy. You need a version of emacs that has been compiled to take
- advantage of X. Has anyone done this yet? I'd do it myself only am a little
- short of disc space..... :-)
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- Actually this has been done. Try getting from tsx-11.mit.edu
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- packages/emacs-18.58:
- total 5485
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 johnsonm 405733 Oct 6 00:04 x11emacs-shared-4.1.tar.Z
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- This works fine withe /lib/libX11.so.2.1 and will give you what you want.
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