Subject: Re: emacs weirdness
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 09:10:27 MDT
I got it figured out. For some reason the Development install installed
the emacs-nox package by default (I can't think why... any thoughts
Terrasoft folk?). I uninstalled it and installed emacs-X11. All better
now.
-christopher
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Black wrote:
>
>
> So, I finally got a good install disk and it worked beautifully, thanks
> Terrasoft folks!
>
>
> Now, however, I have a bit of oddness that I can't quite figure out... I
> was poking around my new install, trying to put configurations back the
> way I had them (fstab, ppp stuff etc...). Right off the bat, I fired up
> emacs to edit my fstab file (emacs /etc/fstab &), and nothing happened. I
> hit return and I got a message like
> [2] Stopped emacs fstab
>
> I thought that was odd, but I decided to try and foreground it, so I typed
> fg, and it popped up in my xterm like I had no X-server running. So, I
> quit out and tried again, this time without the &. It popped right back up
> in the xterm instead of making a new window for itself. I did an env for
> the hell of it, and saw that term was indeed set to xterm and display was
> set to 0.0 . What could possibly have gone wrong that would make emacs not
> X aware? I am terribly puzzled...
>
>
> -Christopher
>
>
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