ghs@PURDUE.EDU.UUCP (02/19/87)
We've recently brought up gnumacs with HAVE_X_WINDOWS defined and I have a few questions about the gnumacs and x interface. 1. What are the advantages of using gnumacs in this way? The only one I can see is that it enables you to bind mouse clicks to perform editing functions. Although this *is* an advantage, there are some disadvantages to gnumacs with HAVE_X_WINDOWS defined (2 & 3, below). 2. Is there any way to get gnumacs to autoraise? It is annoying to have autoraise enabled and have the gnumacs window be the only one that won't autoraise when the mouse pointer is moved to it. 3. Is there any way to give geometry specifications to gnumacs when starting it regarding window size and the position of the icon? Greg
wohler@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM.UUCP (02/20/87)
greg, besides the mouse bindings (a big win), it also makes half-screen scrolls MUCH faster. autoraise is a function of xterm. if you want to add all of the xterm functionality and another meg to the gnuemacs binary, then help yourself. actually, i only have my "main" xterm window autoraise--sometimes it can be a hassle to have every window autoraise if you're trying to use the information from one window in another. yes, you can give geometry specifications for the window. i've already asked to have the icon specification added. use gnuemacs -w =XxY+x+y --bw
jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM.UUCP (02/20/87)
>> 1. What are the advantages of using gnumacs in this way? The only >> one I can see is that it enables you to bind mouse clicks to perform >> editing functions. Although this *is* an advantage, there are some >> disadvantages to gnumacs with HAVE_X_WINDOWS defined (2 & 3, below). I think the biggest single advantage is that the server and client may be different machines, and emacs opens the X connection automatically for you. So I can ask for an emacs running on my file server (so I can do some tool maintenance, say), and it pops up a window back on my workstation. Thus, I can have a command alias (or shellscript) of the form: rsh my-server "(setenv TERM xterm; setenv DISPLAY my-works:0; emacs)" Compare this to starting up a new xterm window and then executing the rlogin and then running emacs - you avoid the xterm altogether, and emacs will do a better job at screen updating to boot since it can skip all the termcap/termlib stuff. More generally, the following shellscript allows for any X command to be executed remotely (or any command in background for that matter). #!/bin/sh case $# in [01]) echo "Usage: $0 host x-cmd [args...]";; *) host="$1"; shift xhost "$host" rsh "$host" "(setenv TERM xterm; setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0; $*)" & ;; esac On autoraise: can't you get close to what you want with appropriate window manager bindings? Does require a mouse click, I guess, but is that too awful? /jr jr@bbn.com or jr@bbnccv.uucp Without life, there wouldn't be chemical companies.