Re: An emacs that does both Aqua and X win
Re: An emacs that does both Aqua and X win
- Subject: Re: An emacs that does both Aqua and X win
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 16:11:10 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: normal
Sun, 21 Aug 2005 (10:21 -0700 UTC) Itai Seggev wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:06:32AM -0700, 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.
>
> Emacs that creates its own X window != XEmacs. The former is simply
> the terminal-based emacs with a compile-time option enabled. The
> latter is a bloated, messy fork, which would eat one 100% of CPU on an
> ultrasparc that moment you moved the mouse.
Generally, I run XEmacs throughout an X session, and X loads at system
restart (average two weeks). It rarely goes above 1.0% usage. Maybe the
version you used was configured with Motif enabled, or perhaps you
hyperbolize for effect.
--
rdr
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