RE: Please explain -nw switch and effects and equivalent .emacs command for it.

[Chris Seberino]

Jay,

Thanks for your tip.  I am able to change cursor to be
shape I desire with or without -nw switch now thanks.
I read the Frame Parameters section of Emacs Lisp
Ref. Manual like you said and am confused why
-nw switch makes mouse commands not work.
All I want to do is make Emacs start in same
xterm I'm in...why is it necessary to do something
so drastic like use a different "X interface"
such that I lose mouse??? Is there any other way
to have Emacs work in same xterm and save the mouse???

Sincerely,

Chris





>From the emacs man page.

-nw     Tells Emacs not to use its special interface to X.  If you use
this switch when invoking Emacs from an xterm(1) window, display is done
in that window.  This must be the first option specified in the command
line.

I would expect that no functions that use the mouse would not work when
the x-window interface is turned off, not just the home grown ones.  You
might want to read about Frame Parameters in the Emacs Lisp Reference
Manual, specifically read about cursor-type in the Window Frame
Parameters section.  This might allow you to make the cursor look like
you want it to and keep the mouse functions as well.

J_)
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   Chris Seberino [mailto:seberino@spawar.navy.mil] 
Sent:   Tuesday, 27 November, 2001 2:20 p
To:     help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject:        Please explain -nw switch and effects and equivalent
.emacs command for it.

Cursor looks better with -nw switch but
home grown emacs functions that use the mouse
DON'T work with -nw switch!!!?!?!?

Is there anyway to correct mouse based functions
with -nw and add a line to .emacs so that I don't always
have to remember to type -nw or make an alias???

Thanks in advance,

Chris

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