dale@convex.com (Dale Lancaster) (09/19/89)
I want to know how to tell GNUemacs NOT to use Xwindows even if I do have the DISPLAY environment variable set. Does anyone know how? thanks dale
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (09/19/89)
In article <1797@convex.UUCP> dale@convex.com (Dale Lancaster) writes:
Dale> I want to know how to tell GNUemacs NOT to use Xwindows even if
Dale> I do have the DISPLAY environment variable set. Does anyone
Dale> know how?
Dale> thanks
Dale> dale
In version 18.5[45] you can use either
emacs -t
or
emacs -nw
to get the behavior you desire (-t stands for 'terminal' and -nw
stands for 'no windows' they are equivalent.)
Enjoy!
--
Mark D. Baushke
mdb@ESD.3Com.COM
boaz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Boaz P Ben-Zvi) (09/24/89)
--------------------------- > > > Dale> I want to know how to tell GNUemacs NOT to use Xwindows even if > Dale> I do have the DISPLAY environment variable set. Does anyone > Dale> know how? > > In version 18.5[45] you can use either > > emacs -t > or > emacs -nw > My question: is there a way to do it without giving a command line parameter (e.g. "-nw") ? set EDITOR=/usr/bin/X11/emacs but no command line parameters can be given. ------------ Boaz Ben-Zvi boaz@neutron.lcs.mit.edu
boaz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Boaz Ben-Zvi) (09/26/89)
"How can I bring up Emacs with no window without supplying command line parameters (like -nw)?" 1) In your emacs window call server-start (possibly in your .emacs). then specify "emacsclient" as the editor. E.g. set EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacsclient Whenever the editor is needed (e.g. called by ucb mail or by latex), you can edit it in the existing emacs window. 2) By unsetting the environment DISPLAY variable. E.g. put the #! /bin/csh -f set odis = $DISPLAY unsetenv DISPLAY /usr/bin/X11/xemacs setenv DISPLAY $odis #!/bin/sh exec emacs -nw $* set EDITOR=..../emacs-nw -------------- Boaz Ben-Zvi boaz@neutron.lcs.mit.edu --------------------- *** Some lines were missing from my previous posting. Who wrote "xrn" ???
bob@primerd.prime.com (09/27/89)
>>In version 18.5[45] you can use either >> >> emacs -t >>or >> emacs -nw Seems to me that the better thing would have been to have the default behavior remain the same, and have a command line option to request the new behavior. That way, old scripts, menus, etc. would have continued to work. Bob Pellegrino Prime Computer, Inc.