From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 11:45: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DE137B402 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16SNom-0002cC-01; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:39:52 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.228.211.211]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16SNok-0WlqNMC; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:39:50 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0KJe0X34121; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:40:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200201201940.g0KJe0X34121@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: repl X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: questions To: leegold Cc: Ray Kohler , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs will not start Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:19:12 EST." <3C5AA2C6@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:40:00 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG leegold writes: > I didn't install, nor do I want at this X-windows > on my pc. why is emacs asking for an x library? > > I'm new to emacs I assumed it was text based > like vi is(?) > Make it like this ``WITHOUT_X11=1 make install'' and it won't include the X11 stuff. Or try starting it with the -nw (no windowing) flag. I'm assuming emacs21 here. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message