Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!peyote!woan From: woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Sharing two versions of EMACS Summary: why two different versions Message-ID: <368@peyote.cactus.org> Date: 6 Feb 90 05:41:48 GMT References: Distribution: gnu Organization: Capital Area Central Texas Unix Society, Austin, TX Lines: 34 In article , peters@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank W. Peters) writes: > I want to install both a x-windows and a strait terminal version. I > have installed the X version with no problem. I then removed the > HAVE_X_WINDOWS option from config.h and compiled a new executable. Why have two versions? The X-Window version will detect whether the DISPLAY environment is X-Windows and bring up the default tty server (termcap) support if necessary. The X-Winodw code size is pretty negligible. > It seems to work fine except that the arrow keys are not bound to > next-line etc. Local emacs users assure me that this should be happening. I am sure that you could probably define them in the .emacspfkeys file or in therr lisp/term support files... > So, my question. How do people out there share the etc, lisp and such > files between the two copies? Do I really need seperate sets of these > directories for the two executables? It doesn't make any difference which version you are running; the lisp and compiled lisp files will be the same. Moral of the story, one program and one set of libraries are all that is needed. Ron -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + + second choice: woan@peyote.cactus.org +