martillo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (12/04/85)
From: martillo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU I am currently trying to bring up gnu emacs on the apollo. On serial lines I am able to get gnu emacs to set up the display and I can load all the lisp into it but when I type a command I get wrong type arguement, commandp. Also it does not interface to the apollo window system at all. Is anybody familiar with these problems and has anyone tried to interface gnuemacs to the apollo window system? Joachim Martillo
marc@haddock.UUCP (12/06/85)
While at my previous company (Metagraphics), we were able to reasonably run gnuemacs on the serial lines connected to vt-100 compatable terminals. You can probably do the same quite easily. As far as running it in the display_manager (DM), you are probably going to have to hack together some kind of frontend which would at startup time, make calls to DM (probably gpr_$ and pad_$) to set the pad into PAD_$RAW mode and GPR_$DIRECT graphics mode. After the initial setup, it would pass the input keystrokes (16 bit, by the by, if you are using gpr_$) and would have the knowledge of how to display output. If you would like to talk to somebody directly at Apollo about your problems, there is a good chance that they will give you some general help. A good person to call directly would be Steve Ketcham @ 256-6600 . Good luck and please let us know how you make out... -- Marc WB1GRH