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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: X windows support
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Date: 14 Dec 87 17:58:48 GMT
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>> 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
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