Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!turnkey!itcorp!geoff From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Emacs 2.0 Message-ID: <1991Apr14.085415.15470@ITcorp.com> Date: 14 Apr 91 08:54:15 GMT References: Organization: Interrupt Technology Corporation, Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 15 In article jm36+@andrew.cmu.edu (John Gardiner Myers) writes: > Emacs 2.0, the NextStep front end to GNU emacs is available on the > purdue Next Archives (sonata.cc.purdue.edu and the other machine I > can't remember just now) as pub/next/2.0-release/source/Emacs-2.0.tar.Z I picked this up, and it works quite nicely. One hint, though: the code requires that your local site be listed in /etc/hosts. I know you're going to ask "why wouldn't it be", but I run a standalone home system and I thought /etc/hosts didn't matter to me. It took me quite a while to figure out that the reason the mouse didn't work was because it couldn't find the output of "hostname" in /etc/hosts. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com uunet!desint!geoff