Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!oliveb!mintaka!daemon From: boaz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Boaz Ben-Zvi) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: GNUemacs and Xwindows Message-ID: <1Sw2Xn#5pBGyR=daemon@mintaka> Date: 25 Sep 89 20:47:26 GMT References: <14559@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU><1797@convex.UUCP> Sender: daemon@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu (Lucifer Maleficius) Distribution: usa Lines: 27 "How can I bring up Emacs with no window without supplying command line parameters (like -nw)?" 1) In your emacs window call server-start (possibly in your .emacs). then specify "emacsclient" as the editor. E.g. set EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacsclient Whenever the editor is needed (e.g. called by ucb mail or by latex), you can edit it in the existing emacs window. 2) By unsetting the environment DISPLAY variable. E.g. put the #! /bin/csh -f set odis = $DISPLAY unsetenv DISPLAY /usr/bin/X11/xemacs setenv DISPLAY $odis #!/bin/sh exec emacs -nw $* set EDITOR=..../emacs-nw -------------- Boaz Ben-Zvi boaz@neutron.lcs.mit.edu --------------------- *** Some lines were missing from my previous posting. Who wrote "xrn" ???