Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM!jr From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: X windows support Message-ID: <8712141656.AA15820@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 14 Dec 87 17:58:48 GMT References: <8712110909.AA13038@chorus.fr> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jr@ALEXANDER.BBN.COM Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 >> Could you send me, or better, post on the net, a summary of what you >> did to GNU Emacs to work correctly on X11. I've tried to do it here >> but using X11 as distributed (even with posted bug fixes) on Suns was >> too much of a pain. I gave up before spending all days and nights on >> the bloody thing. It took me very little effort to transition to X11. Fortunately, someone else here is taking care of getting and keeping X11 itself working (keeping up with bugfixes, etc.). Asuming you have gotten that far, you have to get the distribution of gnuemacs/X11 changed files from Robert French at MIT (rfrench@athena.mit.edu). I am able to retrieve them by FTP. I'm not sure whether they have been usenet-posted; perhaps they are settled enough for this now. The only hitch I had was that one of the files in my GNU Emacs 18.49 didn't have some changes that Robert's changes depended on. Robert sent me this file too (emacs.c); then everything compiled fine. Remianing problems are (1) occasionally it hangs; I go to a shell window and issue a kill -INT to wake it up again; (2) menus aren't supported yet. Perhaps Robert will comment further on what to expect next (are you there Robert?). /jr jr@bbn.com or jr@bbn.uucp