mdb@silvlis.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (07/10/88)
> Date: 8 Jul 88 21:02:42 GMT > From: sun!columbia.edu!garfield!nihal (Nihal Nounou) > Organization: Columbia University CS Department > > I am not able to run GNUemacs on XV11R2. When I try to run it , it > says "Check you DISPLAY environment variable". MY DISPLAY variable > is set to unix:0.0. I know there is a -d option to emacs but that > doesn't seem to help. Has anybody else encountered this ? It sounds like you configured your version of GNU Emacs to use X10R4 support rather than X11. Either re-configure for X11 (changes to config.h include adding '#define X11') or use the x10tox11 protocol converter. You did not specify which version of GNU Emacs you are using, but 18.50 was the first official release that had any support for X11 (it was still somewhat buggy then). If you don't have GNU Emacs 18.51, get it. GNU Emacs 18.51 has X11R2 support code that works (mostly) and patches can be obtained that make it work better. I can provide a copy of these patches (~36K) (written by Dana Chee <dana@bellcore.com>). People considering adding enhancements to the GNU Emacs - X11R2 interface are encouraged to join the emacs-11@bloom-beacon.mit.edu mailing list (send requests to emacs-11-request@bloom-beacon.mit.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark D. Baushke Internet: mdb%silvlis.com@sun.com Silvar-Lisco, Inc. Nameservers: mdb@silvlis.com 1080 Marsh Road Usenet: {pyramid,sun}!silvlis!mdb Menlo Park, CA 94025-1053 Telephone: +1 415 853-6411 / +1 415 969-8328
mangerma@nmsu.CSNET (07/11/88)
Nihal,
If you had the newest version of Gemacs, then you wouldn't
have the problem of of getting the error message
xD
Check your DISPLAY environment variable
Because Stallman has written the newest version to work
under X11 R2.
However, never fear, you can run your old version of gemacs
just fine inside an xterm. The key point is !!!
When you fire up gemacs inside an xterm do the following.
gemacs -nw
The nw flag tells gemacs "no window".
Have a good one.
Michael Angerman
The Computing Research Lab
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88001
505-646-5711
email address ----> mangerma@nmsu.edu