Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Emacs on the NeXT - how do you get the mouse to interface with it. Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 15:16:50 GMT References: <1991Jun25.090947.5547@ohm.york.ac.uk> Organization: University of California, Irvine, USA. Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk's message of 25 Jun 91 09:09:47 GMT In article <1991Jun25.090947.5547@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes: >> >> I expected, and a few articles in this newsgroup seem to confirm, >> the version of Gnu Emacs bundled on the NeXT to allow use of the >> mouse for editing etc, similar to the X windows version. >> >> However I can't find anyway of getting it to run outside a terminal >> window, or recognise the mouse etc. >> There is a NeXTStep front end to the generic emacs written by John Myers and called Emacs (with a capital E). It is available on the archives. In order to activate the mouse (which works like the emacs-mouse in X-windows on the Suns, rather that highlight as the HUGE unofficial HP-emacs does) you have to install some e-lisp files in /usr/lib/emacs/lisp and /usr/lib/emacs/lisp/term. Instructions are clear and explicit! The file and size is: -r--r--r-- 1 bin golem 114895 Mar 19 07:26 Emacs-2.0.tar.Z Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET