icicle and emacs --daemon
Thierry Volpiatto
when using the new emacs --daemon, icicle complain that we are not in a
window-system.So i modify the starting message of icicles.el like that:
,----
| (unless (or (and
| (fboundp 'daemonp)
| (daemonp))
| window-system)
| (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*WARNING*"
| (princ "You probably do NOT want to use Icicles without a windowing ")
| (princ "system (manager).\n\n")
| (princ "Consider using `emacsclient' (or `gnuclient'). ")
| (princ "Icicles makes use of many\n")
| (princ "keys that are unavailable when running Emacs in console mode. ")
| (princ "If you do\n")
| (princ "use Icicles in this mode, you will want to rebind those keys - ")
| (princ "see file\n`icicles-mode.el'.\n"))
| (message "*WARNING* - Icicles uses keys that require a windowing system")
| (sit-for 5))
`----
It work fine here.
--
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France
Drew Adams
> are not in a window-system.So i modify the starting
> message of icicles.el like that:
>
> It work fine here.
Thanks, Thierry. I've added that.
BTW, it seems that some people do use Icicles with a console (i.e. without a
window mgr). I would be interested in knowing how you do so - which key changes
you have made etc., in order to either provide for that as an option or at least
document some of your suggestions for other users. Thx.
Drew Adams
Dunno if you still use Icicles, but here is an update on this.
It turns out that the behavior of "text terminal" (that is, emacs -nw) is
variable, and depends mostly on the platform. The good news is that nowadays
most platforms do support "fancy" keys in a text terminal.
This means that, depending on your platform, Icicles, like Emacs, does in fact
work with emacs -nw - I was mistaken in thinking that it does not.
I did some testing on MS Windows - all of the "fancy" keys work fine there.
I also tried using "emacs -nw" (with Emacs 21) from a terminal in a Gnome
desktop on a Linux box, using VNC from Windows. There, because of VNC and Gnome,
some "fancy" keys (e.g. `C-next') are not available to Emacs, but others (e.g.
`S-TAB') are. I didn't try without Gnome, and I can't try on Linux without using
VNC, but I suspect, from speaking with others, that there is no problem
generally on Linux either - many, perhaps all, of the "fancy" keys should be
available.
I also checked to make sure that it's OK to use library hexrgb.el even in a
context where few colors are available. No problem. The Linux/VNC context, for
example, has only 6 or 8 colors available.
The bottom line is that I was mistaken in thinking that Icicles would not work
well without a graphics display. I've updated the Icicles libraries accordingly
(cleaned up the doc and code a bit).
HTH - Drew