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Re: An emacs that does both Aqua and X win

Actually, no. I do mean emacs, not xemacs.
(aside: I have no position on the emacs vs. xemacs thing; emacs just happens to be the one I use)

Apple's emacs works fine in a Terminal.app or xterm environment, if by "fine" one means that it works in the (old) traditional manner where *everything* is done via the keyboard. But emacs is available as an X client, and for the past umpteen years I have been using it that way, on both Solaris and more recently OS X.

There is at least one app that has been ported to OS X that can be used either as an Aqua app, or as an X win client: R (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/). Admittedly, it's not the same binary; there is R.app, the Aqua binary that goes in /Applications, and a binary that is also an X client, that can be used as such by adding a link,

  ln -s /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/R /usr/local/bin/R

(this is an option that has to be done manually after the fact; the installer does not create the link).

So, I was just wondering if any of the versions of emacs ported to OS X as an Aqua app had a similar "feature". It would be nice to have to install only one additional emacs, instead of two.

Thanks
-Don

At 10:06 AM -0700 8/21/05, Jeff Shapiro wrote:
On Friday 19 August 2005 09:05, Don MacQueen wrote: 
 I would like to install a single emacs that can be used either as an
 Aqua app, or as an X windows client.


By "emacs" I take it that you are actually asking about xemacs. The Apple
installed version of emacs works just fine in a terminal window in either
Apple's Terminal.app or an X11 xterm window.

If you really want an xemacs that runs in X11 and Aqua, then I seriously doubt
that you will find one. The display technologies used in them is too
different to make it feasible to have one binary work in both.

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