Discuss Digest, Vol 15, Issue 23

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It seems to me that this would be the correct behavior for emacs. If you
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.


> 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>
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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 RHEL
> 5.2 was a clean install. The reason I can't run emacs on my workstation
> is that it is an IA64 system and I usually compile from emacs, so I need
> 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 suspect
> that the issue might be that it cannot detect the keyboard using the ssh
> -f (which implies -n) option.
>
>  --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix
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