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On Jan 18, 3:52=A0am, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> So, what might I have done wrong?

If emacs didn't start in a new window, the first thing *I* would check
is your DISPLAY environment variable:

echo $DISPLAY

Without it, Emacs will start in tty mode even if you compiled with X
support.