Date: Fri, 2 Jun 1995 17:41:50 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: kpadmaso AT spc-srv-a DOT efit DOT elcm DOT eds DOT com, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: emacs in x windows on dos/windows -- help!

kpadmaso AT spc-srv-a DOT efit DOT elcm DOT eds DOT com writes

   Hi Everybody,
   
   I have the dos port of emacs 19.28. I also have the Hummingbird
   eXceed4 X server running. Naturally, it leads me to wonder if it is
   possible to make Emacs come up in an X Window and use all the features
   of Emacs in X Windows(viz. frames etc.). Does anyone know how to do
   this? Do I have to recompile Emacs? Do I need to get a different X
   server? Is it possible to do this without installing linux?
   
   The emacs that I have runs from the dos prompt and comes up with a
   menu-bar, it also runs in a dos window under windows, but the menus
   don't work then, for some reason.
   
   Basically, I would like to have almost the same functionality as I
   have when using Emacs with X under Unix. Is it too much to ask? :-)
   
   Else I shall have to settle for Codewright or Brief (good grief).
   I don't have anything against these editors, they seem to be quite
   powerful, but just that I prefer Emacs (add to that the inertia of
   learning a new command set).
   
   Thanks in advance for your help.

And Morten Welinder <terra AT diku DOT dk> replies:

   You must recompile Emacs to get it running with X.  I have only
   tried it with Desqview/X, but I should think you could get it
   running on your also.  I your sources don't have X stuff for
   msdos in there, go look at http://www.diku.dk/~terra/emacs.html

Note that DV/X provides a fair amount of Unix-like functions (sockets,
etc).  Fixing that could be painstaking, if not painful.

Also, unless eXceed does local multitasking, I don't see how you're
going to do this.  It's much, much easier to do this kind of thing
under DV/X than any Windowze system I know of.  (Windows NT is a
different matter, of course, although I gave up on NT when I won
Solitaire and the clock stopped running while the cards bounced around
the screen.  Presumably thay've fixed that configuration problem since
then....  I assume it was a configuration problem....)

I would suggest linux, it took me longer to FTP slackware than to get
it running.  Getting it working well is another matter....

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