From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: joao.moreira@free.fr
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building an emacs to use the mouse in the linux console
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 05:52:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hatyainv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2012883564.325560868.1340655385571.JavaMail.root@zimbra73-e12.priv.proxad.net>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:16:25 +0200 (CEST)
> From: joao.moreira@free.fr
>
> I'm trying build an emacs binary that will let me use the mouse when running in the Linux console. I'm running Fedora 16 (LXDE spin), I installed gpm, and I compiled Emacs 24.1 from source, but copy-paste is not working. I can use the mouse to select text, but when trying to paste I get a message saying "Symbol's function definition is void: x-get-selection-internal".
This is expected: the GPM support on a TTY does not include copy/paste
feature. No one wrote the code to do that. Patches are welcome.
> When building emacs, it first complained that I was running X but had no X development libraries. So I configured it with the '--without-x' option, and at the end of the 'configure' run it said emacs would use '-lgpm'. So I'm puzzled by the 'x-' function, do I need X libraries to use the mouse ?
No, you don't need X. It's just that, for historical reasons, many
functions related to GUI features have names that start with "x-".
> The emacs 23.3 that comes with Fedora is able to copy-paste in the console, but of course, I don't know how they built it. What's the right way to go about this ?
Sorry, I don't know. Maybe someone else could help. Also, the value
of the variable system-configuration-options might reveal something
about the way Emacs was configured, and running ldd on the executable
will show which shared libraries it uses. Maybe that will give a
clue.
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2012-06-25 20:16 ` Building an emacs to use the mouse in the linux console joao.moreira
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2012-06-26 7:23 ` Andreas Schwab
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