benson@ksr.UUCP (04/15/87)
In article <50@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP () writes: > >On a SunIII, in X10, running emacs in an xterm, Left dosen't work for >meta. > >Can anybody give me any suggestions? This problem was solved by getting a correct TERMCAP entry for xterm. However, I'm getting some other odd behavior. First off, the mouse cursor has a an extra pixel turned on off to the left. Second, I can't get any mouse reaction in emacs unless caps-lock is set. This, of course, has pernicious effects when I go to add text. Then, all the mouse clicks are as documented (more or less). Third, when I want to use emacs for my editor when posting from rn, I have to go supply a window size from the mouse, which is a pain. Benson I. Margulies Kendall Square Research Corp. harvard!ksr!benson All comments the responsibility ksr!benson@harvard.harvard.edu of the author, if anyone.
bob@wiley.UUCP (Bob Amstadt) (04/18/87)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.36.2 of Mon Feb 23 1987 on diva (berkeley-unix) In article <58@ksr.UUCP> benson@ksr.UUCP (Benson Margulies) writes: > Second, I can't get any mouse reaction in emacs unless caps-lock is > set. This, of course, has pernicious effects when I go to add text. > Then, all the mouse clicks are as documented (more or less). I use GNU Emacs for everything, and I've only seen this behavior once. One possibility is that your window manager is catching the other mouse events. When I was first setting up my .uwmrc, I incorrectly made assumptions about the behavior of uwm. The net result was that uwm trapped the mouse events that I wanted to use in emacs. > Third, when I want to use emacs for my editor when posting from rn, > I have to go supply a window size from the mouse, which is a pain. I don't know anything about rn, but unless the geometry is provided to GNU emacs, it will need to be placed. I personally prefer to use GNU emacs as an environment where I read news, read mail, and edit. My experience tells me that GNU emacs is not a good editor for invoking from another program to do quick editing. GNU emacs is huge and takes too long to load for that purpose. It seems to me that it would be better to start in emacs and deal with news and mail from within emacs. Bob Amstadt bob@wiley.uucp (UUCP) trwrb.uucp!wiley!bob (Alternate UUCP) csvax.caltech.edu!wiley!bob (Alterna" Wuter16RUod fi
avolio@DECUAC.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio) (04/20/87)
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 87 10:21:12 edt From: trwrb!wiley!bob@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (Bob Amstadt) I don't know anything about rn, but unless the geometry is provided to GNU emacs, it will need to be placed. I personally prefer to use GNU emacs as an environment where I read news, read mail, and edit. My experience tells me that GNU emacs is not a good editor for invoking from another program to do quick editing. GNU emacs is huge and takes too long to load for that purpose. It seems to me that it would be better to start in emacs and deal with news and mail from within emacs. Since this is not a list about GNU Emacs, let me be short: GNU Emacs supports the idea of an Emacs server. IF you have one up already, it doesn't have to start another. The delay problem goes away. I use GNU and X togeter all the time and have never seen the problems mentioned (having to supply the geometry is not an X problem... have your default editor set up to be "myemacs" where is exec's gnu emacs with geometry info). a f1Q