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1 .TH EMACSTOOL 1
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2 .SH NAME
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3 .I emacstool
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4 \- run emacs under Sun windows with function-key and mouse support.
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5 .SH SYNOPSIS
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6 .I emacstool
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7 [{window_args} {-rc run_command_path} args ... ]
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8 .SH TYPICAL USAGE
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9 In ~/.suntools or ~/.rootmenu include a line like this:
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10 .br
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11 "Emacstool" emacstool -WI emacs.icon -f emacstool-init
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12 .SH DESCRIPTION
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13 .B Emacstool
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14 creates a SunView frame and a tty subwindow within which mouse events
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15 and function keys are translated to ASCII sequences which Emacs can
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16 parse. The translated input events are sent to the process running in
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17 the tty subwindow, which is typically GNU Emacs. Emacstool thereby
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18 allows GNU Emacs users to make full use of the mouse and function keys.
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19 GNU Emacs can be loaded with functions to interpret the mouse and
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20 function-key events to make a truly fine screen oriented editor for
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21 the Sun Workstation.
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22 .PP
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23 (Note that GNU Emacs has a special interface to the X window system as
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24 well. The X window system has many technical advantages, it is an
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25 industry standard, and it is also free software. The Free Software
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26 Foundation urges you to try X windows, and distributes a free copy of
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27 X on Emacs distribution tapes.)
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28 .PP
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29 Function keys are translated to a sequence of the form
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30 `^X*[a-o][lrt]'. The last character is `l', `r', or `t' corresponding
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31 to whether the key is among the Left, Right, or Top function keys.
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32 The third character indicates which button of the group
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33 was pressed. Thus, the function key in the lower right corner will
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34 transmit the sequence `^X*or'. In addition, the [lrt] is affected by
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35 the Control, Meta, and Shift keys. Unshifted Control keys will be
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36 non-alphabetic: C-l is [,], C-r is [2], C-t is [4].
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37 .PP
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38 Mouse buttons are encoded as `^X^@([124] x y)\\n'. ^X^@ is the
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39 standard GNU Emacs mouse event prefix, it is followed by a list
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40 indicating the button pressed and the character row and column of the
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41 point in the window where the mouse cursor is, and followed by a
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42 newline character. In GNU Emacs, the ^X^@ dispatches to a
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43 mouse event handler which then reads the following list.
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44 .SH OPTIONS
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45 .B Emacstool
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46 supports all the standard window arguments, including font and icon
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47 specifiers.
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48 .PP
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49 By default, Emacstool runs the program
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50 .I emacs
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51 in the created subwindow.
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52 The value of the environment variable
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53 .I EMACSTOOL
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54 can be used to override this if your version of
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55 .B Emacs
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56 is not accessible on your search path by the name
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57 .I Emacs.
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58 In addition, the run command can be set by the
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59 .I pathname
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60 following the last occurrence of the
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61 .I \-rc
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62 flag.
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63 This is convenient for using Emacstool to run on remote machines.
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64 .PP
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65 All other command line arguments not used by the window system are passed
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66 as arguments to the program that runs in the Emacstool window.
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67 .PP
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68 For example:
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69 .PP
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70 local% (emacstool -rc rlogin remote -8 &)&
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71 .PP
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72 will create an Emacstool window logged in to a machine named
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73 .I remote.
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74 If Emacs is run from this window,
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75 Emacstool will encode mouse and function keys, and send them to rlogin.
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76 If Emacs is run from this shell on the remote machine, it will see
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77 the mouse and function keys properly.
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78 However, since the remote host does not have access to the screen,
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79 the cursor cannot be changed, menus will not appear, and the selection
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80 buffer (STUFF) is limited.
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81 .SH Using With GNU Emacs:
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82 The GNU Emacs files
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83 lisp/term/sun.el,
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84 lisp/sun-mouse.el,
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85 lisp/sun-fns.el,
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86 and
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87 src/sunfns.c
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88 provide emacs support for the Emacstool and function keys.
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89 Emacstool will automatically set the TERM environment variable to be "sun"
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90 and unset the environment variable TERMCAP. That is, these variables will
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91 not be inherited from the shell that starts Emacstool.
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92 Since the terminal type is
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93 .I SUN
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94 (that is, the environment variable TERM is set to
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95 .I SUN),
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96 Emacs will automatically load the file lisp/term/sun.
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97 This, in turn, will ensure that sun-mouse.el is autoloaded when any mouse
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98 events are detected. It is suggested that
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99 .I sun-mouse
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100 and
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101 .I sun-fns
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102 be loaded in your site-init.el file, so that they will always be loaded
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103 when running on a Sun workstation.
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104 .PP
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105 In addition, Emacstool sets the environment variable IN_EMACSTOOL = "t".
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106 Lisp code in your ~/.emacs can use (getenv "IN_EMACSTOOL")
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107 to determine whether to do Emacstool specific initialization.
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108 Sun.el uses this to automatically call emacstool-init (getenv "IN_EMACSTOOL")
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109 is defined.
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110 .PP
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111 The file src/sunfns.c defines several useful functions for emacs on
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112 the Sun. Among these are procedures to pop-up SunView
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113 .I menus,
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114 put and get from the SunView
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115 .I STUFF
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116 buffer, and a procedure for changing the cursor
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117 .I icon.
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118 If you want to define or edit cursor icons,
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119 there is a rudimentary mouse driven icon editor in the file
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120 lisp/sun-cursors.el. Try invoking (sc:edit-cursor)
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121 .SH BUGS
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122 It takes a few milliseconds to create a menu before it pops up.
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123 .SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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124 EMACSTOOL
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125 IN_EMACSTOOL
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126 TERM
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127 TERMCAP
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128 .SH FILES
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129 .DT
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130 emacs
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131 .SH "SEE ALSO"
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132 emacs(1)
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133 .../etc/SUN-SUPPORT
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134 .../lisp/term/sun.el
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