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From: dave@CS.WISC.EDU (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: gnu emacs and NeWS
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Date: 12 Dec 89 16:40:17 GMT
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I recently started doing some work on a system where the preferred
window system is NeWS (if it matters, a Sun3 running 4.0 and NeWS).

I wanted, of course, to use emacs on this beast.  My first reaction was
that NeWS allows SunView applications to run as well as NeWS windows.
So, I compiled emacs with the SunTools stuff and ran it.

I found that my emacs window sat on top of the other windows -- a kind
of overlay.  I couldn't raise any regular NeWS windows on top of my
emacs window.  There is also this hideous border around the emacs window
(a 10-20 pixel wide white "nomans land" where nothing works -- the
cursor even disappears in this area).  Also, I couldn't resize it like
the NeWS windows.  These problems seem to be common to any SunTools
program you happen to run.

My questions:
1) can any of this be worked around (the resize is not important)?
2) has anyone added NeWS support to emacs?

I'm hoping for a positive response to (2), but if you have any
suggestions at all ("Just use SunTools" is not an option) I'd be
interested.

thanks,

dave cohrs