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From: bsa@NCoast.ORG
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Subject: X-ized emacs as a non-X program
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Date: 22 Feb 90 13:47:15 GMT
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In your message of 21 Feb 90 15:11:39 GMT, you write:
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| schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
| >Now, what if I don't particularly want emacs to come up in it's
| >own window when I am running X-windows (i.e. how do I make it function
| >like it did before X).
|
| you weren't in X-windows, just alias you emacs command to unset the
| DISPLAY variable (after saving to a temporary) and then invoke emacs, and
| then reset the DISPLAY variable.  Simple.
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Wouldn't it be easier to simply alias emacs to "emacs -nw"?

++Brandon