From: Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,
Subject: Re: problem running graphical GNU Emacs 24
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:00:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k46o6ssl.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7DB2944E-6EDB-4253-B781-EE56267F2BFF@Web.DE>
XeCycle Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:44:32 +0800
>>> A graphical one can always run in a terminal, I guess the -nox one
>>> is not needed.
Tom Roche Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:22 AM
>> And indeed installing package=*-nox somehow disables one's ability to
>> run graphically:
>> $ sudo aptitude remove emacs-snapshot-nox
...
>> $ sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot-gtk
...
>> And after that,
>> $ emacs-snapshot-gtk --debug-init &
>> performs as expected. [Is this working as designed?]
Peter Dyballa Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:25:06 +0100
> That's my opinion. Otherwise you would have to use two different
> names to invoke any of the Emacsen.
No: packages often install files with names that don't exactly match
(particularly, names that are subsets of) the package name.
> what's the advantage of having emacs-snapshot-nox and
> emacs-snapshot-gtk? Doesn't the latter show, if wanted,
> a behaviour like the former?
No, that's my point in this thread. I want to be able to run emacs in
both a terminal window and an X window, so I thought I should install
both *-nox (to run in shell) and *-gtk (to run graphically). But after
installing both, I could only run in shell. After removing *-nox, I
can now run in both. This seems to me to be a bug: I don't believe
installing *-nox should disable the ability to run graphically,
*without informing the user at install-time*. Am I missing something?
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-25 2:58 problem running graphical GNU Emacs 24 Tom Roche
2011-11-25 15:44 ` XeCycle
2011-11-25 16:22 ` Tom Roche
2011-11-25 16:25 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-11-25 17:00 ` Tom Roche [this message]
2011-11-25 19:11 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-11-26 8:37 ` Jonathan Groll
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