From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pearson <r.pearson@ieee.org>
Cc: 40762@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:48:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhb3eimk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=Pf1+qurGEHOCghRZEix0zbrisuOL3i6rCGsGgToLzJt4nHg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Robert Pearson on Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:01:50 -0400)
> From: Robert Pearson <r.pearson@ieee.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 04:01:50 -0400
>
> No trouble downloading and installing. Then I started emacs and tried to go through the tutorial. The User
> Interface is so outdated that it screwed up my keyboard for emacs and all other programs. The UI makes
> emacs useless.
Did you start Emacs in text mode? Otherwise, I cannot understand how
could it screw up your keyboard.
> (I believe the problem with GNU emacs is curses and could be fixed by going to the 21st century for the UI.)
Emacs should use ncurses for the text-mode frames, but the default is
to start a GUI frame, where curses is not relevant at all.
So I don't think I understand the nature of your problems.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-22 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 8:01 bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04 Robert Pearson
2020-04-22 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-13 1:33 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <handler.40762.D40762.159728241226986.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2020-08-26 5:52 ` bug#40762: closed (Re: bug#40762: UI screws up Ubuntu 18.04) Robert Pearson
2020-08-26 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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