Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
- Subject: Re: Using Apple's standard emacs with X11?
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:30:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: NEW
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 about 11:09 -0700 UTC M. Stanley Bubien wrote:
> >If GNU-Emacs is similar to XEmacs, and in this way I believe it is, an X
> >aware version segregates library calls in such a way that when started
> >without X it uses a different set of libraries (one of which is [n]curses)
> >and ignores other X features such as input methods dependent on X.
>
> So you're saying that even though it's compiled with X libraries,
> it will start up *without* the libraries on the system as long as
> you do terminal-only mode? Wow.
Well, you read what I wrote correctly, but I wasn't clear in what I said.
The libraries need to be available, but if X is not loaded, XEmacs does the
right thing by not calling the functions that depend on the X layer being
resident. However, if you compile XEmacs without widgets and such, there
won't be that many X11 libraries that it wants to use.
What do other X-aware programs do if run without the X/server layer in
place?
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