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From: dld@theory.cs.cmu.edu (David Detlefs)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: X and gnu emacs problem
Message-ID: <1023@theory.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 21:00:23 EST
Article-I.D.: theory.1023
Posted: Wed Mar 18 21:00:23 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 03:32:48 EST
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I have a little problem I was wondering if someone could help me with.

I am running X, using the uwm window manager.  I have modified my
.uwmrc file with the intent of causing a certain button combination to
cause a menu to appear with some favorite commands.  I have no problem
with commands like !"xterm -e telnet g &".  However, when I attempt to
do !"emacs &", nothing happens.  However, when I eventually kill uwm,
I find I have started an emacs which I am plunked into.  I had been
under the impression that emacs knew whether to run as an X
application or not based on the setting of the DISPLAY environment
variable, which I know is set at the time my login shell gets the
"emacs" command.  Is this impression mistaken?  Does anyone have a
clue about how I can get the behavior I want?

Thanks!

Dave