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EMACSTOOL(1)							  EMACSTOOL(1)

NAME
       emacstool  -  run  emacs	 under Sun windows with function-key and mouse
       support.

SYNOPSIS
       emacstool [{window_args} {-rc run_command_path} args ... ]

TYPICAL USAGE
       In ~/.suntools or ~/.rootmenu include a line like this:
       "Emacstool"     emacstool -WI emacs.icon -f emacstool-init

DESCRIPTION
       Emacstool creates a SunView frame and  a	 tty  subwindow	 within	 which
       mouse  events and function keys are translated to ASCII sequences which
       Emacs can parse.	 The translated input events are sent to  the  process
       running	in the tty subwindow, which is typically GNU Emacs.  Emacstool
       thereby allows GNU Emacs users to make full use of the mouse and	 func‐
       tion  keys.   GNU  Emacs	 can be loaded with functions to interpret the
       mouse and function-key events to make a	truely	fine  screen  oriented
       editor for the Sun Workstation.

       (Note  that GNU Emacs has a special interface to the X window system as
       well.  The X window system has many  technical  advantages,  it	is  an
       industry	 standard,  and	 it  is also free software.  The Free Software
       Foundation urges you to try X windows, and distributes a free copy of X
       on Emacs distribution tapes.)

       Function keys are translated to a sequence of the form `^X*[a-o][lrt]'.
       The last character is `l', `r', or `t' corresponding to whether the key
       is  among  the  Left, Right, or Top function keys.  The third character
       indicates which button of the group was pressed.	  Thus,	 the  function
       key  in	the lower right corner will transmit the sequence `^X*or'.  In
       addition, the [lrt] is affected by the Control, Meta, and  Shift	 keys.
       Unshifted  Control keys will be non-alphabetic: C-l is [,], C-r is [2],
       C-t is [4].

       Mouse buttons are encoded as `^X^@([124] x y)\n'.  ^X^@ is the standard
       GNU  Emacs  mouse event prefix, it is followed by a list indicating the
       button pressed and the character row and column of  the	point  in  the
       window  where the mouse cursor is, and followed by a newline character.
       In GNU Emacs, the ^X^@ dispatches to a mouse event handler  which  then
       reads the following list.

OPTIONS
       Emacstool  supports  all	 the standard window arguments, including font
       and icon specifiers.

       By default, Emacstool runs the program emacs in the created  subwindow.
       The value of the environment variable EMACSTOOL can be used to override
       this if your version of Emacs is not accessible on your search path  by
       the  name  Emacs.  In addition, the run command can be set by the path‐
       name following the last occurence of the -rc flag.  This is  convenient
       for using Emacstool to run on remote machines.

       All  other  command  line  arguments  not used by the window system are
       passed as arguments to the program that runs in the Emacstool window.

       For example:

       local% (emacstool -rc rlogin remote -8 &)&

       will create an Emacstool window logged in to a  machine	named  remote.
       If Emacs is run from this window, Emacstool will encode mouse and func‐
       tion keys, and send them to rlogin.  If Emacs is run from this shell on
       the  remote  machine, it will see the mouse and function keys properly.
       However, since the remote host does not have access to the screen,  the
       cursor cannot be changed, menus will not appear, and the selection buf‐
       fer (STUFF) is limited.

Using With GNU Emacs:
       The GNU	Emacs  files  lisp/term/sun.el,	 lisp/sun-mouse.el,  lisp/sun-
       fns.el,	and  src/sunfns.c  provide emacs support for the Emacstool and
       function keys.  Emacstool will automatically set the  TERM  environment
       variable	 to be "sun" and unset the environment variable TERMCAP.  That
       is, these variables will not be inherited from the  shell  that	starts
       Emacstool.   Since  the	terminal type is SUN (that is, the environment
       variable TERM is set to SUN), Emacs will automatically  load  the  file
       lisp/term/sun.	This,  in  turn,  will	ensure	that  sun-mouse.el  is
       autoloaded when any mouse events are detected.  It  is  suggested  that
       sun-mouse and sun-fns be loaded in your site-init.el file, so that they
       will always be loaded when running on a Sun workstation.

       In addition, Emacstool sets the	environment  variable  IN_EMACSTOOL  =
       "t".   Lisp  code  in  your ~/.emacs can use (getenv "IN_EMACSTOOL") to
       determine whether to do Emacstool specific initalization.  Sun.el  uses
       this  to	 automatically	call emacstool-init (getenv "IN_EMACSTOOL") is
       defined.

       The file src/sunfns.c defines several useful functions for emacs on the
       Sun.   Among  these are procedures to pop-up SunView menus, put and get
       from the SunView STUFF buffer, and a procedure for changing the	cursor
       icon.   If you want to define or edit cursor icons, there is a rudimen‐
       tary mouse driven icon editor in	 the  file  lisp/sun-cursors.el.   Try
       invoking (sc:edit-cursor)

BUGS
       It takes a few milliseconds to create a menu before it pops up.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       EMACSTOOL IN_EMACSTOOL TERM TERMCAP

FILES
       emacs

SEE ALSO
       emacs(1)
	.../etc/SUN-SUPPORT
	.../lisp/term/sun.el

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