diff -ur ratpoison/acconfig.h ratpoison-noemacs/acconfig.h
--- ratpoison/acconfig.h	Fri Feb 16 04:53:22 2001
+++ ratpoison-noemacs/acconfig.h	Sun Feb 25 19:22:46 2001
@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
 /* When defined, ratpoison will print debugging information */
 #undef DEBUG
 
-/* X terminal emulator to user */
-#undef TERM_PROG
-
-/* name of emacs program */
-#undef EMACS_PROG
-
diff -ur ratpoison/configure.in ratpoison-noemacs/configure.in
--- ratpoison/configure.in	Thu Feb 22 05:14:15 2001
+++ ratpoison-noemacs/configure.in	Sun Feb 25 19:22:28 2001
@@ -38,30 +38,10 @@
 		AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
 	fi],[AC_MSG_RESULT(no)])
 
-AC_ARG_WITH(xterm, [ --with-xterm=PROG        set the x terminal emulator used by ratpoison ],
-term_prog=$withval, term_prog="xterm")
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(TERM_PROG,"$term_prog")
-
-AC_ARG_WITH(emacs, [ --with-emacs=PROG        set the Emacs used by ratpoison ],
-emacs_prog=$withval, emacs_prog="emacs")
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(EMACS_PROG,"$emacs_prog")
-
 dnl Checks for programs.
 CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -Wall -g"
 AC_CHECK_TOOL(CC, gcc)
 AC_PROG_CC
-
-dnl check for an x terminal emulator
-AC_CHECK_PROG(TERM_PROG,$term_prog,yes,no)
-if test x$TERM_PROG = xno; then
-   AC_MSG_ERROR([*** Can't find x terminal emulator \`$term_prog'])
-fi
-
-dnl check for an Emacs (we dont really want to do this, c'mon)
-AC_CHECK_PROG(EMACS_PROG,$emacs_prog,yes,no)
-if test x$EMACS_PROG = xno; then
-   AC_MSG_WARN([*** Can't find Emacs \`$emacs_prog'])
-fi
 
 dnl Check for the X libs
 AC_PATH_X
diff -ur ratpoison/debian/rules ratpoison-noemacs/debian/rules
--- ratpoison/debian/rules	Thu Feb 15 20:26:03 2001
+++ ratpoison-noemacs/debian/rules	Sun Feb 25 19:23:49 2001
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 			--prefix=/usr \
 			--infodir=/usr/share/info \
 			--mandir=/usr/share/man \
-			--with-xterm=x-terminal-emulator \
 			--disable-debug
 			--build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) \
 			--host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
diff -ur ratpoison/src/actions.c ratpoison-noemacs/src/actions.c
--- ratpoison/src/actions.c	Sat Feb 24 22:46:48 2001
+++ ratpoison-noemacs/src/actions.c	Sun Feb 25 19:28:37 2001
@@ -107,13 +107,7 @@
   add_keybinding (XK_Return, C,	"next");
   add_keybinding (XK_a, 0, "clock");
   add_keybinding (XK_a, C, "clock");
-  add_keybinding (XK_c, 0, "exec " TERM_PROG);
-  add_keybinding (XK_c, C, "exec " TERM_PROG);
   add_keybinding (XK_colon, 0, "colon");
-  add_keybinding (XK_e, 0, "exec " EMACS_PROG);
-  add_keybinding (XK_e, C, "exec " EMACS_PROG);
-  add_keybinding (XK_exclam, 0, "exec");
-  add_keybinding (XK_exclam, C, "colon exec " TERM_PROG " -e ");
   add_keybinding (XK_k, 0, "delete");
   add_keybinding (XK_k, C, "delete");
   add_keybinding (XK_m, 0, "maximize");
diff -ur ratpoison/src/main.c ratpoison-noemacs/src/main.c
--- ratpoison/src/main.c	Sun Feb 25 01:47:51 2001
+++ ratpoison-noemacs/src/main.c	Sun Feb 25 19:36:41 2001
@@ -211,8 +211,9 @@
 	    {
 	      PRINT_DEBUG ("rcfile line: %s\n", line);
 
-	      /* do it */
-	      command (line);
+	      /* do it - unless it's a comment */
+	      if(line[0] != '#')
+		command (line);
 
 	      *line = '\0';
 	    }