Re: LyX under X11 behaviour
Re: LyX under X11 behaviour
- Subject: Re: LyX under X11 behaviour
- From: "Mark E. Perkins" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:42:47 -0400
On 2007/07/13 16:19, Rich Cook wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>
>> On 2007/07/13 14:42, Rich Cook wrote:
>>> I thought the only emacs that opens X windows is called xemacs. What
>>> happens if you type "which emacs"? I suspect you are aliased or
>>> symlinked to xemacs.
>>>
>>
>> The emacs that Apple distributes (/usr/bin/emacs) is GNU Emacs that is
>> not
>> X-enabled. One can (and many folks do) build an X-enabled GNU Emacs.
>> All of
>> that is just a long way of saying XEmacs != X-enabled Emacs (though
>> XEmacs is
>> certainly X-enabled).
>>
>> Mark
>
> Ah, how nicely confusing! :-)
>
You want more? :-) XEmacs can be built '--without-x11'. GNU Emacs and XEmacs
are essentially two branches of Emacs. The reasons that led to the split (and
the animosity engendered) are well documented.
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