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Re: Full-screen editor in /bin



> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:26:37PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > I promise not to give a running commentary on my experience with emacs,
> > but I just entered 'emacs' in a terminal (naively expecting it to open in
> > my terminal, because I thought _xemacs_ was a whole different
> > application) and it opened a window _taller_ than my 800x600 display.  Not
> > a good start!  Can I run it _in_ a terminal, the way I run nano? 
> 
> Yes.  You can, as I am right now (not sure how emacs decides to stay
> in an xterm or spawning off it's own X window).


AFAIR emacs has a special X interface which tells is to open in it's own 
window, which caused me problems in the past using 800x600.  If you type
	emacs -nw
this should simply fire up emacs in that terminal. I have emacs -nw aliased
so that, every time I type emacs, it just comes up in the xterm I'm typing in.

HTH, sorry if I've misunderstood something,
     	      	   		        Stephanie
				     
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