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Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or some
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rusi |
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Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something! |
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Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:16:32 -0800 (PST) |
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On Jan 18, 1:52 pm, dkco...@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:
> Just made an emacs (23.1) on Solaris 10 sparc. Was
> using gnome when I did it.
>
> ./configure ... ... --with-gif=no ...
>
> Now, I thought that the use for libgif (or giflib?) was
> so that you could show *photographs*, things like that.
>
> (I used the with-gif=no because, on comp.unix.solaris, that was
> how I was told to do the configure.)
>
> Anyway, that and the make (gmake) worked ok.
>
> And when I actually ran the newly-built emacs (in ../src/),
> hooray!, I finally had an emacs on this otherwise naked machine.
>
> But it sure didn't look like the ntemacs I'm running on xp,
> with the large fancy colorful "script" EMACS it showed on
> starting up.
>
> No such luck. What I got was like 30 years ago emacs running
> on an ADM-3a or vt-100: took no advantage of the gnome gui
> it was running under.
>
> Question: could that "no gif" do that? (I hope not!)
>
> So, what might I have done wrong?
>
> ---
>
> I was executing it from terminal-window's tcsh command-line,
> rather than by clicking an icon. SURELY that has nothing
> to do with it -- but do tell me if I'm wrong.
>
> Thanks for any advice!
What happens if you turn on gif?
- just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!, David Combs, 2011/01/18
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- Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!, Tim X, 2011/01/18
- Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!, Kevin Rodgers, 2011/01/20
- Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/01/20
- Re: just now made an emacs (on gnome). Problem: thinks I'm vt100 or something!, Steph, 2011/01/21