From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 13:18:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA23206 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA23196 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 13:18:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ax02879; 22 May 96 21:07 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa18699; 22 May 96 18:55 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id BAA21661; Wed, 22 May 1996 01:09:19 GMT Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 01:09:19 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199605220109.BAA21661@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: ro11@crux2.cit.cornell.edu CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <9605211757.AA25445@crux2.cit.cornell.edu> (message from Rohan Oberoi on Tue, 21 May 96 13:57:46 -0400) Subject: Re: Emacs pkg_add problem -- please help. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Thanks, Jim, I'll try that. It seems a little strange that one > should have to install the X server in order to run emacs, rather > than being able to run emacs from the console. Is this really the > way the package is designed ? I believe so. The idea of packages is to provide something that'll get everyone started as quickly as possible, rather than forcing people to fiddle around with Makefile and config files before they can use any applications. Most people seem to want to use X, so the emacs package is built with X support. If you want to build a text-only emacs, you have to install the ports distribution, do 'make extract' in /usr/ports/editors/emacs and read the INSTALL instructions in the emacs source distribution on how to configure it that way. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland jraynard@dial.pipex.com james@jraynard.demon.co.uk