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Working without xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brent Sims)
Wed Nov 4 16:25:14 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:17:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Brent Sims <brent@rmi.net>
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Okay, I give up...
I've been trying to do most of what I do without using Xwindows. I
know this sounds a bit crazy, but I really like working on a simple and
clean interface.
Well, I finally have "enough" knowledge and things setup so I no
longer need the GUI tools to help me do this and that - with one
exception...
I use emacs extensively. Started with it and stayed with it and
its about the only editor I really know. But I can't make the blasted
thing (emacs) do much of anything unless I run it in Xwindows. I'm running
the standard RedHat 5.0 emacs installation - no tweaks. And I'm calling
emacs by entering "emacs" at the command line. As the mouse works on
everything else without the window manager, it seems to me that I might
either be calling the wrong emacs, or there is something wrong with my
installation - simply, I can't make emacs do anything unless I run it in
an Xwindow.
Is there something I'm missing here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Brent Sims
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