From:	Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id:	<200011211023.LAA03658@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP and Emacs 21
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Date:	Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:23:54 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.1001121102500.7635B-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 21, 2000 10:25:24 AM
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> > I believe it's an Emacs-over-telnet thing.
> 
> I'm not sure (how many telnet clients support color commands in
> termcap?).  From what people post on gnu.emacs.help and comp.emacs, it
> is clear that they want that on the GNU/Linux console and even in
> xterm(!).

I think I can enlighten you: I've always prefered to run emacs in an
xterm. Originally, the reason was so I could get proper paste
behaviour. Since then I've become used to it and why clutter my screen
with yet another window when the xterm suffices? So now I think I'll
always be running it in an xterm.

Only recently, I've become aware of the possibility to stop the crazy
paste functionality in emacs while running emacs in it's own window.

For the consol case: why run X that gobbles up a lot of RAM if the box
you use is a number cruncher and only an occasional editor?

(Not that I much see the point of having colours in emacs now. I've
become used to my black and white xterm...)


Right,

						MartinS

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