Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66498
missing package emacs-nox
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:05 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-4 i686) Description of problem: When running mh, I like to select emacs as my editor. However, when I'm on a slow connection, I like to use the nox version (emacs -nw). However, in the .mh_profile file, Editor: emacs-nox worked just fine until that was taken out. I have not figured out a way to pass an argument ie Editor: emacs -nw /* does not work */ How do I envoke emacs in the "no X" mode without passing it an argument, similar to /usr/bin/emacs-nox Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.in the file ~/.mh_profile add the line Editor: emacs-nox 2.comp (compose a message) 3.emacs-nox is not there! Additional info:
Emacs-nox isn't missing - as you've noted, you can run emacs with "-nw". As for how you pass arguments through .mh_profile, I'm not sure, but this is a bug report forum, not a support channel. I suggest you ask on some mailing lists - e.g. valhalla-list or redhat-list.
I feel that the lack of a nox package is a bug, because the emacs package depends on XFree86-libs. For those of us who want emacs but don't want X, this is a definite problem. What prompted RedHat to deprecate the nox package?
Ignore my ignorant comment. I posted it before reading bug 64832.
Fwiw emacs-nox is available again with emacs-21.3-9 soon in FC devel.