bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) (10/23/90)
I was wondering if there is a simple answer to running GNU emacs from a visible shell on a NeXT. These are the problems I encountered: 1. From the Shell application it says terminal type is not powerful enough. 2. The Terminal Application does what I want but the it scrolls too slowly and does not allow you to use a Meta key. 3. The GNU Emacs application doesn't originate from a visible shell (so when you suspend it just quits!), and it doesn't recognize environment variables setup by your .login -- Bill Vrotney
mdixon@parc.xerox.com (Mike Dixon) (10/24/90)
I was wondering if there is a simple answer to running GNU emacs from a visible shell on a NeXT. These are the problems I encountered: emacs runs very nicely under stuart, which gives you Alt as a meta key. also, suspending the Emacs application doesn't quit it -- it just hides. -- .mike.
phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (10/24/90)
(1) Shell has no terminal emulation built-in, so you can't run emacs from a shell. Stuart supposedly fixes this, and supersedes both shell and terminal in the OS Release 2.0. (2) Indeed, Terminal is slow. Worse, it also occasionally screws up with highlighting etc. Again, this will presumably disappear in 2.0. (3) Communicae runs Emacs quite nicely and quickly, but costs $$$. (4) The best way to run Emacs is the gnu-emacs adaptation by John Myers for NeXTStep. To redefine keys only in this version of emacs, try (if (string= (getenv "TERM") "eterm") (global-set-key "\C-x\C-c" 'eterm-hide-emacs)) A new version should be out any day now, and I am looking forward to it. (5) Suspending Emacs (^Z) should never make it go away. It just waits in the background until you continue it (%%). /ivo welch ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu