Discuss Digest, Vol 15, Issue 23

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I don't think so. I do the same for Thunderbird, and it works fine.
Additionally, there is a an emacs example in the ssh man page.

On 01/23/2009 03:47 PM, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> It seems to me that this would be the correct behavior for emacs. If yo=
u
> don't specify it to be use X11 protocol for UI, then it defaults to a
> console text UI. In the "-f" mode there is no console to speak of and
> stdin and stdout are NULL.
>
> Try running "xemacs" or something.
>
>
>  =20
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:57:09 -0500
>> From: Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>> Subject: GNU emacs via ssh
>> To: Boston Linux and Unix <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>> Message-ID: <4979F6E5.2060808-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"iso-8859-1"
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>> When I ssh -X <host>, and run /usr/bin/emacs everything works fine:
>> (emacs)
>> Loading disp-table...done
>> Loading tool-bar...done
>> Loading image...done
>> Loading tooltip...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/igrep-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading
>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el
>> (source)...
>> Loading encoded-kb...done
>> Loading
>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/php-mode-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/python-mode-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpm-spec-mode-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/tramp-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading mwheel...done
>> Loading jka-compr...done
>>
>> But, when I run emacs using ssh -X -f <host> /usr/bin/emacs, it fails
>> while reading lang-coding-systems-init.el.
>> (emacs)
>> Loading disp-table...done
>> Loading tool-bar...done
>> Loading image...done
>> Loading tooltip...done
>> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/igrep-init.el
>> (source)...done
>> Loading
>> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang-coding-systems-init.el
>> (source)...
>> or: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>>
>> In both cases the <host> I was coming from and going to are the same.
>> The target system is running RHEL 5.2. I actually deleted
>> /usr/share/emacs and deinstalled and reinstalled emacs just in case
>> there were some artifacts from a previous installation, though the RHE=
L
>> 5.2 was a clean install. The reason I can't run emacs on my workstatio=
n
>> is that it is an IA64 system and I usually compile from emacs, so I ne=
ed
>> to be on an x86 system since I am using a pre-built set of compilation=

>> tools. I've tested this on a number of different systems we have here,=

>> and with a couple of different ~/.emacs files (and no ~/.emacs). I
>> specified /usr/bin/emacs just to eliminate any hidden aliases. I suspe=
ct
>> that the issue might be that it cannot detect the keyboard using the s=
sh
>> -f (which implies -n) option.
>>
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>> Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
>> Boston Linux and Unix
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>  =20


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