GNU emacs via ssh

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

On 01/25/2009 12:44 PM, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Not to say "I told you so," but, well, there it is.
>
> The issue is that when you run ssh with the "-f" there is no valid tty =
for
> emacs to use, and thus it should fail. At some point in the past, I see=
m
> to remember emacs able to detect a condition where it can't get the tty=
,
> and then testing for X11, but I think that code has been removed or mov=
ed
> to xemacs by the console purists. That may explain why an old ssh examp=
le
> exists.
Possibly. Actually, emacs and xemacs are totally different products=20
although xemacs uses the GNU code. In any case, I'll plan to install=20
xemacs on the systems at work. Unfortunately it had been dropped from=20
RHEL 5.2. There are 2 or 3 things I prefer with xemacs. First, the=20
compiler button, secondly the tab key performs an indent of the line as=20
if the line was shifted to the origin, where in emacs performs a normal=20
tab feature. Other than that I am comfortable with both versions.

In my situation, I like to have a button on GNOME to launch emacs, but=20
it needs to be on an x86_64 host, not an IA64 host which is what my=20
workstation is.

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