[comp.sys.next] Emacs on the NeXT - how do you get the mouse to interface with it.

nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) (06/25/91)

I expected, and a few articles in this newsgroup seem to confirm,
the version of Gnu Emacs bundled on the NeXT to allow use of the
mouse for editing etc, similar to the X windows version.

However I can't find anyway of getting it to run outside a terminal
window, or recognise the mouse etc.

Can someone enlighten me please.

	Nigel.

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hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (06/25/91)

In article <1991Jun25.090947.5547@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:

>>
>>   I expected, and a few articles in this newsgroup seem to confirm,
>>   the version of Gnu Emacs bundled on the NeXT to allow use of the
>>   mouse for editing etc, similar to the X windows version.
>>
>>   However I can't find anyway of getting it to run outside a terminal
>>   window, or recognise the mouse etc.
>>
There is a NeXTStep front end to the generic emacs written by John
Myers and called Emacs (with a capital E). It is available on the
archives.  In order to activate the mouse (which works like the
emacs-mouse in X-windows on the Suns, rather that highlight as the
HUGE unofficial HP-emacs does) you have to install some e-lisp files
in /usr/lib/emacs/lisp and /usr/lib/emacs/lisp/term.  Instructions are
clear and explicit!  The file and size is:
-r--r--r--   1 bin      golem     114895 Mar 19 07:26 Emacs-2.0.tar.Z

Greetings,
Hardy 
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