dove@savax.UUCP (webster dove) (05/24/87)
I have noticed at least one message reporting problems with gnuemacs not starting up under X. I discovered (but have not investigated) the fact that you must permit gnuemacs (I have 18.44) to read the X term file in order for it to startup. If you null the gnuemacs variable term-file-prefix in .emacs to prevent loading a term file (I had done that because it speeds gnuemacs startup on regular terminals) then gnuemacs will sit forever when invoked under X. Cheers Web
rlk@athena.mit.edu (Robert L Krawitz) (06/01/87)
In article <625@savax.UUCP> dove@savax.UUCP (webster dove) writes:
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]I have noticed at least one message reporting problems with gnuemacs
]not starting up under X. I discovered (but have not investigated) the
]fact that you must permit gnuemacs (I have 18.44) to read the X term
]file in order for it to startup. If you null the gnuemacs variable
]
]term-file-prefix
]
]in .emacs to prevent loading a term file (I had done that because it speeds
]gnuemacs startup on regular terminals) then gnuemacs will sit forever
]when invoked under X.
Right; nulling term-file-prefix will lose under vanilla emacs 18. I
hacked it to parse X command line args in C, and to pop up the window
from C; this completely eliminates the problem. I gave the changes
back to RMS; he didn't put them in.
Robert^Z