Re: gui emacs from terminal

[Cynthia Page <pageskipro@yahoo.com>]

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Thanks everyone for your time and helpful information on this post. I am sorry 
to say that so many of your questions and comments are over my head, so please 
forgive me if I don't attempt an answer

I found that I needed to invoke xterm when I ssh'd into the remote machine. 

I had a basic misunderstanding of the processes I needed to accomplish remote 
file editing. Originally I thought I was using the emacs that was installed on 
my machine, when I edited files on a server that I was ssh' ing to. Now I 
realize that when I ssh to a server, I am using a version of emacs that has been 
installed on that server. Also that I need X11 on my machine so that I can use 
xterm to run emacs application (from the server) in an xterm window and with 
some menu driven support.

So the command is 

ssh -Xf username@host xterm.

Thanks again!

Cynthia






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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>; Cynthia Lee Page 
<Cynthia.Page@Colorado.EDU>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 1:30:21 AM
Subject: Re: gui emacs from terminal


Am 16.07.2010 um 03:02 schrieb Kevin Rodgers:

> I always log the output for future reference e.g.
> 
>     ./configure --with-ns 2>&1 | tee configure.log


You could also use M-x compile RET <configure command> RET to create a 
*compilation* buffer in which the use of faces emphasises some text output to 
see more easily what is going on, potentially failing. Finally the *compilation* 
buffer needs to be saved and closed, in order to save it from being reused and 
overwritten by next compilation.


Anyway, the Carbon, NS, and AppKit variants of GNU Emacs have no networking 
capability in a manner like an X client because Apple's windowing system is like 
that from MS not network aware, only local like the windowing systems from 30 
years ago (on Xerox Star, Pet, Lisa, Atari, Amiga, Sun with SunView, Apollo with 
Presentation Manager). TRAMP in Emacs allows to edit files in remote file 
systems, and Apple's Terminal application would allow to launch any Carbon, NS, 
or AppKit variant of GNU Emacs without GUI inside it as

    /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw

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Greetings

  Pete

Never be led astray onto the path of virtue

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