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- From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
- Subject: Re: emacs under X
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.051507.13546@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <Nov.9.02.28.29.1992.15908@remus.rutgers.edu> <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk> <GTHAKER.92Nov11132510@trantor.atl.ge.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:15:07 GMT
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- In article <GTHAKER.92Nov11132510@trantor.atl.ge.com> gthaker@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Gautam H. Thaker) writes:
- >In article <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk> A.J.Bleasby@daresbury.ac.uk (Alan Bleasby) writes:
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > 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..... :-)
- >
- >Actually this has been done. Try getting from tsx-11.mit.edu
- >
- >packages/emacs-18.58:
- >total 5485
- >-rw-rw-r-- 1 johnsonm 405733 Oct 6 00:04 x11emacs-shared-4.1.tar.Z
- >
- >This works fine withe /lib/libX11.so.2.1 and will give you what you want.
- >
- >Gautam H. Thaker (gthaker@atl.ge.com) 609-866-6412 (fax x6397. Dialcom 8-777)
- >GE Adv. Tech. Lab., MS 145-2; Route 38; Moorestown, NJ 08057. 767-4396 (home)
- >--
- >Gautam H. Thaker
-
- No, no, no ;).
- Get emacs-18.59a, the x11 version (something like
- x11emacs-18.59a-bin.tar.Z). -58 is broken due to
- increased number of files opened simultaneously.
-
- It should be on sunsite, and on tsx-11 too.
-
-
- Sincerely
-
- Rafal
-
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