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Bug 66498

Summary:	missing package emacs-nox
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Warren Jasper <wjasper>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Warren Jasper 2002-06-11 14:02:34 UTC

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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:

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-06-11 14:08:04 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Alex Yacoub 2002-06-27 16:17:14 UTC

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?

Comment 3 Alex Yacoub 2002-06-27 16:18:53 UTC

Ignore my ignorant comment.  I posted it before reading bug 64832.

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2004-01-23 17:14:23 UTC

Fwiw emacs-nox is available again with emacs-21.3-9 soon
in FC devel.