Re: GNU emacs locks files modified with CVS

[Pepijn Kenter]

gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
> Of course everyone can set up their systems however they wish, but I 
> use:

Of course. When saying the .bashrc isn't the proper place for setting 
the DISPLAY variable, I meant that at that time you can't know what 
value to set it to. From your (and Maurizio Loreti's) post I learned you 
can use the who command to find out. So thank you both.

> export DISPLAY=$(who -lum|awk -F '(' '{print $2}'|awk -F ')' '{print $1}'):0
>
> in my ~/.bashrc and have no problem logging in and/or running remotely
> whatever X apps I want.
>
> Because it would take a lot of thinking to hash out which is the correct 
> file to put this in, whether the DISPLAY is a resource or not, whether...<snip>

Excuse my ignorance, but what do you mean by resource in this context?

Pepijn.