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okay for some reason, in kde xterm, when i type emacs, i sometimes get a nice gui version of emacs and sometimes i just get emacs opening itself in the xterm window without all the picture mumbo jumbo...what option changes this??
nice thanks..umm but i am wondering...if it possible to set it up so when i used emacs -nw /etc/whatever &
it will open up another xterm with emacs???
cuz right now..i just get nothing when i type that in...
ok... well you have to set an option to xterm. i dont know if this works for eterm but you can try it. type:
xterm -e emacs -nw /name/of/file &
and that should po up a new window. the & is just so that you can run it in the background so you can have your original xterm window back. the -e is the option to execute the following program in the new xterm window. you could start any other program here instaed of emacs. If this is what you need write back because you would be the official first person i've helped. super fun!!
i guess he was saying
xterm -e "emacs -nw /name/of/file" &
could have looked more clear where & is being binded (with xterm not with emacs)
although if u put quotes around it , it doesn't work..(at least in my machine)
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