want the old-style X interface back

want the old-style X interface back

[rutzi]

Hi, 

I'd like to revert back to the old, pseudo-graphical interface of
emacs. That one playing ascii-graphics and using window-manager
features for the drop-down menus. I am limited in bandwidth and can't
use the full-windowized and -iconized design of the latest emacs. No,
I don't want to use the -nw switch since it provides not-at-all equal
functionality, especially at mouse usage.

Is it possible to adjust this, or do I need to switch back to an elder
version of emacs?

MfG  rutzi

Re: want the old-style X interface back

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'd like to revert back to the old, pseudo-graphical interface of
> emacs. That one playing ascii-graphics and using window-manager
> features for the drop-down menus. I am limited in bandwidth and can't
> use the full-windowized and -iconized design of the latest emacs. No,
> I don't want to use the -nw switch since it provides not-at-all equal
> functionality, especially at mouse usage.

> Is it possible to adjust this, or do I need to switch back to an elder
> version of emacs?

You can still do that with the latest versions of Emacs, but it is
a compilation option, so you have to recompile with --with-x-toolkit=no.

As for emacs -nw and mouse, xterm-mouse-mode tries to remove this limit,
although it's admittedly not as good.


        Stefan

Re: want the old-style X interface back

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:07:00 +1300, rutzi@fs.tum.de wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to revert back to the old, pseudo-graphical interface of emacs.
> That one playing ascii-graphics and using window-manager features for

Does a (tool-bar-mode nil) line in your .emacs do what you want?
Maybe I'm still using an 'elder version', GNU Emacs 21.2.1 .  I like
it.

HTH

Z

Re: want the old-style X interface back

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Feb 19 2004, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:

> Does a (tool-bar-mode nil) line in your .emacs do what you want?

Should be (tool-bar-mode -1), see `C-h f tool-bar-mode RET'.

But it makes much more sense to use "Emacs.toolBar: 0" in
`~/.Xresources':

,----[ (info "(emacs)Resources X") ]
| `toolBar' (class `ToolBar')
|      Number of lines to reserve for the tool bar.  A zero value
|      suppresses the tool bar.
`----

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