New Debian User w/ Emacs troubles

1999-07-14 Thread Patrick Beeson
I recently installed Debian on my machine. When running Emacs20, I can't get a cursor over the text. It works over highlighted text, inverted, etc, but not over default text. This makes files extremely difficult to edit. But, it doesn't happened in any other program that I can see. I tried

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread borik the Boris Yati Beletsky
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Me wrote: |Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 15:34:35 -0600 |From: Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: Debain debian-user@lists.debian.org |Subject: emacs troubles | |I'm trying to install emacs. Why, I don't know. I can't find the |'elf-x11r6lib'. I shouldn't need Xwindows to run this do I? |Just

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Vadik Vygonets
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Me wrote: I'm trying to install emacs. Why, I don't know. I can't find the 'elf-x11r6lib'. I shouldn't need Xwindows to run this do I? Just need pointing in the right direction. Install the package 'xlib'. - From Packages.gz: Package:

emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Me
I'm trying to install emacs. Why, I don't know. I can't find the 'elf-x11r6lib'. I shouldn't need Xwindows to run this do I? Just need pointing in the right direction. Thanks.

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Mark Eichin
yes, just install the xlib package -- it's small, just enough shared libraries to let the program run. It won't actually *use* the X code if you don't have $DISPLAY set, and it is in the end cleaner than having seperate packages for X and non-X versions...

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Bruce Perens
emacs is an editor with text/graphic interface so u can compile emacs with out graphic-x interface Generally, if there is an option to compile a program with an X interface as well as its text interface, we do so for Debian. This requires _only_ that the (reasonably small) X runtime library be

Re: emacs troubles

1996-09-05 Thread Boris Beletsky
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: |Date: Wed, 4 Sep 96 22:14 PDT |From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: Me [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc: Debain debian-user@lists.debian.org |Subject: Re: emacs troubles | | emacs is an editor with text/graphic interface | so u can compile