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- From: kernel@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Kernel Account)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: emacs under X
- Message-ID: <1dpsg6INNgkr@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 02:51:50 GMT
- Article-I.D.: master.1dpsg6INNgkr
- References: <AJB.92Nov9190408@dlsi.dl.ac.uk>
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- 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..... :-)
-
- The emacs package that I downloaded from tsx-11 (I think) contained the
- necessary *stuff* for running emacs under X. Included is an executable
- called x11emacs, which is what you need to run to take advantage of X.
- You might check to see if you already have this and just don't know it.
-
- Check out tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/emacs-18.58
-
- Jeff
-