emacs, xemacs, No pop-up window
 

Hi all:

Newbie to linux, and need your help to make emacs/xemacs work.
I just installed emacs and xemacs, and it works. However, no pop-up window shows up. It just uses the xterm as the editor screen instead pop up a new window. When typing command TOP, root.. X is shown.
I want a pop-up window for emacs/xemacs. So can anyone help me out with this?

Redhat: Enterprise 3.0
emacs: 21.4a.tar.gz
xemacs: 21.4.17.tar.gz

If some one asked this question already, sorry about that. Please point me to the right direction if so.


Many many thanks.

DT

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

May I first ask a few questions, since it's not possible
to answer that kind of inquiry without some back-ground
information...

What distro are you using, how did you install emacs?
I won't comment on xemacs since I don't use it.


Cheers,
Tink

I got the emacs (emacs-21.4a.tar.gz) from the offical site:
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/

Steps i went through:
1. download emacs-21.4a.tar.gz to mydirectory/
2. tar -zxvf emacs-21.4a.tar.gz
3. cd emacs-21.4 (new create directory)
4. ./configure
5. make
6. su => become root
7. make install
8. su myusername
9. emacs & => no window pop up, it just hangs there, when i hit ENTER.
The promt looks like:

[myusername@ redhat myusername]$ emacs &
[1] 25392
[myusername@ redhat myusername]$

After i hit ENTER for the second time:
[myusername@ redhat myusername]$

[1]+ stopped emacs
[myusername@ redhat myusername]$


10. emacs => the terminal become the emacs screen with no menu bar, etc.

I have also tried:
echo $DISPLAY ==> localhost:10.0

There were no error msgs displayed.


So what should i do to get that display a seperate window for emacs ?

Thanks again.

DT

emacs and xemacs are two different editors. You don't need emacs for using xemacs or the opposite. Emacs should be able to run in its own window when compiled properly. Maybe you compiled emacs without X support. Do the sources come with a README file or something like that? Perhaps you could find some answers there.

I don't know why xemacs isn't working for you. I didn't know it can run in the terminal. Maybe you only have to set some parameter in your .emacs file. Look at the FAQs that come with xemacs/emacs.

Anyway, Do you have any particular reason to install emacs/xemacs from source? I think you are using Red-Hat, thus you should be able to get a compiled rpm that problably will have X support.

Good luck!

yes i think when you configured emacs you did not have X11 developements files in place and you got a non x emacs (emacs configure sees x as optional)
use this to comple emacs once x is in place
after you get emacs working for extra popup fun
try this in your .emacs file
(setq pop-up-frames t)

First of all, thanks for those who replied.

I got it to work. It's very simple. just find the add/remove application from the menu, and click detail next to text-editor.....

I haven't tried the "make bootstrap" option mentioned by foo_bar_foo. Thanks anyway.

DT

Hi guys,

I actually have the same distro and same problem, and none of the above seems to work. Emacs was installed as a package with the OS, and I downloaded and installed Xemacs separately.

Unfortunately, the "make bootstrap" command did not work as there was no "bootstrap" target in the xemacs install directory. And dt4stat's suggestion did not help. Under "details", I can't really do anything but read about the different text editors.

This is frustrating as I've worked with several different distros on several computers both at work and at home, and I've never had anything like this happen. In fact, I previously had this distro installed on another hard drive on this same computer, and both xemacs and emacs worked exactly as advertised. I don't know what gives.

Any thoughts?

BTW - I don't really care about getting a separate window for emacs as much as xemacs.

Thanks!

Hmmm... it seems that in my $PATH variable, /usr/local/bin occurs before /usr/bin and that they are running two different versions of the "emacs" command. When I execuate /usr/local/bin/emacs I get emacs in the xterm. When I run /usr/bin/emacs I get a separate emacs window....

Does anyone understand this?