Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!nmsu.CSNET!mangerma From: mangerma@nmsu.CSNET Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: running GNUemacs on X11 Message-ID: <8807111129.AA09211@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Jul 88 18:38:40 GMT References: <5752@columbia.edu> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 Nihal, If you had the newest version of Gemacs, then you wouldn't have the problem of of getting the error message xD Check your DISPLAY environment variable Because Stallman has written the newest version to work under X11 R2. However, never fear, you can run your old version of gemacs just fine inside an xterm. The key point is !!! When you fire up gemacs inside an xterm do the following. gemacs -nw The nw flag tells gemacs "no window". Have a good one. Michael Angerman The Computing Research Lab New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico 88001 505-646-5711 email address ----> mangerma@nmsu.edu