The obNOXious flavour of Emacs

Randux · 02-19-2006, 04:23 PM

Hey guys,

I am trying to use emacs-nox (without x) on a small slackware machine .

First of all, I don't know how to connect the emacs command to the executable (should I just rename it?) which is emacs-21.4-no-x11. I know on a "normal" installation you can just type emacs or emacs filename and it works.

Secondly, I am getting an error, and I can't open anything. When emacs starts it says:

Cannot open load file: disp-table

and this happens when I type emacs-21.4.no-x11 with or without a filename as an argument.

Thanks
Rand

mdarby · 02-19-2006, 05:36 PM

Code:

ln -s /usr/bin/emacs-21.4-no-x11 /usr/bin/emacs

As for the disp-table, can you post ~/.emacs?

Randux · 02-19-2006, 06:02 PM

Thanks very much, you've been a big help! I notice that you have answered several questions of mine and I appreciate it very much.

I can't do this at the moment as I'm downloading a gentoo torrent on my Windoze (there, I said it) machine. I'll get back to you asap.

Thanks again,
Rand

Randux · 02-20-2006, 05:00 AM

Matt, I can't find .emacs on my system where emacs isn't working. I also couldn't find one on my system where it is working! I have a directory, .emacs.d but it is empty except for an auto-save-list directory.

The link command built a nice link but I still can't use emacs! Now whattamIsuppozedtodo!

Thanks,
Rand

slackie1000 · 02-21-2006, 03:35 AM

Randux,
did you try the following??

Code:

emacs -nw $filename

regards,
slackie1000

Randux · 02-21-2006, 04:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slackie1000

Randux,
did you try the following??

Code:

emacs -nw $filename

regards,
slackie1000

Hi Slackie,

No, I was using emacs $filename because I installed the emacs-nox package which isn't supposed to use x at all. I didn't install the normal (x-enabled) version of emacs on that system.

Maybe there is something wrong with the package. I will download it from gnu.org and see if it works any better. For now I am using teco on that machine. Teco is nice, but I would like to have one editor on all my machines.

Thanks,
Rand

mdarby · 02-21-2006, 05:56 AM

Try installing the emacs-lisp package, it sounds like you're simply missing a LISP file emacs depends on:

http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...21.4a-noarch-1

Randux · 02-21-2006, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mdarby

Try installing the emacs-lisp package, it sounds like you're simply missing a LISP file emacs depends on:

http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...21.4a-noarch-1

You da man!

But...I can't believe they advertise that emacs-nox is 400k smaller than the x-enabled version since you have to load 27M (yes, megabytes) of lisp SOURCE FILES!!! to get the nox to work! Nice going, gnu!

Thanks!
Rand

dive · 02-21-2006, 04:03 PM

Ouch. Ever thought about switching to vim? ;0)

MannyNix · 02-21-2006, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Ouch. Ever thought about switching to vim? ;0)

ahh! Vim!

http://www.oualline.com/10/top_10.html

Randux · 02-21-2006, 04:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dive

Ouch. Ever thought about switching to vim? ;0)

No, man. Everyone has limits