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From: desj@brahms (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs with X Windows
Message-ID: <34@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 01:13:11 EDT
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Can someone explain how GNU Emacs handles X Windows?  In particular, suppose
I run 'xinit xtools' where xtools is a program that forks off certain X
applications, including emacs.  I have set DISPLAY to be 'unix:0'.

What I really don't understand is that it *does* work if I first set TERM
to 'xterm'.  Why should it matter what terminal type I am running??  I am
almost certain that emacs (quite properly) writes directly to the X window,
rather than using a terminal emulator like xterm.

The only thing that I can think of is that it is checking my terminal type
to see if I am really running X!  Is it really possible that it would do
this?  This is a truly awful way to go about things, in that (among other
things) it assumes that only one particular terminal emulator will be used
from inside X.

I suppose I will dig into the source if I have to, and see for myself what
it is doing; I am just hoping that someone who knows how it works can let
me know what is going on and save me a lot of effort.  And this seems like
something that could be of interest to other people -- I'm not sure how
many people out there are really using X...

   -- David desJardins
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