Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
- Subject: Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
- From: Jim Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:28:54 -0600
This looks very good! I only have one thought to offer about this draft.
In your useful new discussion about the potential pitfalls of
hardcoding the value of DISPLAY, you state: "If Emacs tries to talk X11
protocol to the Terminal app, predictably bad things will happen." It's
not actually Terminal that Emacs will try to talk to, it's the X server
(it doesn't matter what program happens to be displaying stdout; the
connection to X goes over a network socket). So it doesn't matter
whether or not Terminal has ever heard of X11. How about something like
"If Emacs tries to talk X11 protocol and you haven't launched the X
server, predictably bad things will happen."
I was going to mention that you could also launch Emacs using the "-nw"
(no windows) flag, but I think your solution (even though you call it
kludgy) is better, because it's general, and will work with any similar
application. The "-nw" flag is Emacs-specific.
-Jim
On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 23:26 America/Chicago, Rich Morin wrote:
I have finished the second draft of my article on "X11 Tweaks"
for "Section 7", my column in MacTech Magazine. Please look
it over (http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/section7/2003.05.X11.2.pdf)
and let me know of any errors, omissions, etc.
-r
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