*- On 9 Sep, rich wrote about "What is xemacs-tty?" > Hello, > > I just installed XEmacs, and in my Windowmaker menu there now appears: > > XEmacs20-nomule > XEmacs20-tty-nomule > > What is the tty entry? Why do I have 2 installations of Xemacs when I > only picked 1? >
It is an menu entry for a text terminal based xemacs on a tty. According to the menu entry definition in /usr/lib/menu/xemacs20: ?package(xemacs20-nomule): needs=X11 section=Apps/Editors title="XEmacs20-nom ule" command="/usr/bin/xemacs-20.4-nomule" ?package(xemacs20-nomule): needs=text section=Apps/Editors title="XEmacs20-tt y-nomule" command="/usr/bin/xemacs-20.4-nomule" Notice that one has needs=X11 and the tty one has needs=text(See the doc in /usr/doc/menu for more details). So the tty version says that it requires a text terminal to run. Maybe this is a bug in the menu entry but I think the command string for the tty version should have the -nw option added to it, i.e. command="/usr/bin/xemacs-20.4-nomule -nw". Otherwise if you are running X and select the tty version it just launches an xterm and then spawns a GUI xemacs from there, a waist of resources. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
