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From: smithln@watermelon.cs.rochester.edu (Neil Smithline)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: X-ized emacs as a non-X program
Message-ID: <1990Mar1.223752.8133@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 90 22:37:52 GMT
References: <3703@uceng.UC.EDU> <100138@convex.convex.com> <454@argus.mrcu>
Sender: smithln@cs.rochester.edu (Neil Smithline)
Reply-To: smithln@watermelon.cs.rochester.edu (Neil Smithline)
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In-reply-to: paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson)

In article <454@argus.mrcu>, paj@mrcu (Paul Johnson) writes:
>How to stop X Emacs comming up in its own window....
>
>Use the command "emacs -t /dev/tty".
>
>The previous suggested solution, the aliasing of the Emacs command to
>unset and then set the DISPLAY environment variable, is dangerous
>because even Emacs may terminate abnormally.

How about just "emacs -nw".

If you insist on messing with the DISPLAY envariable then how about
	alias emacs-nw '(UNSETENV DISPLAY; emacs \!*)'
and there is no problem if emacs terminates unexpectedly.

Neil

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