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Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #1384
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Nov 5 10:46:03 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 22:23:52 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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$ emacs-nox is the same as
$ emacs -nw is the same as
$ emacs with DISPLAY unset
The only advantage of emacs-nox, is that it's smaller.
Without Xwindows, emacs does not use the mouse at all, but
still has _all_ its capabilities through Ctrl key and Esc key mappings,
and plain commands.
All of emac's mouse capabilities depend on xwindows.
Gpm does not help emacs enough to bother with.
The emacs menu-bar you see in a console window starts
with F10. You might find it interesting.
There is a whole world of coolness inside emacs.
Without the xwindows menus, enjoy reading about
it, and have a guru help you. It takes time to
learn to love it.
I've used it for years. It can do absolutely anything,
just like Linux can, but it is a very religious area, and
I never try to convert people who prefer something else.
I also love vi for some things.
Charles Galpin wrote:
> > The way I see this, if I could just access the basic menu
> >functions I could figure out the rest.
> >
> > Simply, I figure that an F key or a control something ought to
> >bring up some kind of menu. But all I can get at is the help functions and
> >I'm not quite sure of how I did that as I was just banging on key
> >combinations hoping I could find a way to escape without dumping the
> >system.
> >
> > Brent
>
> Brent. Please read the emacs man page, and see if that gets you started. If
> not feel free to ask again.
>
> Pretty much everything is driven with Ctrl-key sequences, or with M-x (
> escape - x ), and was so long before menus and such were added.
>
> I think there is a text only version of emacs (emacs-nox ) that might have
> better menu support in a term.
>
> do a
> rpm -qa | grep emacs
> to see if you have it installed
>
> charles
>
> -- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
>
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