Problem with Emacs

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Steven Ulrick <meow8282 at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:10 AM, Steven P. Ulrick <meow8282 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, Everyone
>> For quite a while now, Emacs has ceased being useable on our system. For
>> example, if I run "emacs .bashrc" in a terminal, Emacs starts up as
>> expected, but the file cannot be edited.  I can use the mouse to select text
>> in the portion of the file that is actually displayed in the terminal, but I
>> cannot move the cursor(?) or delete/add/change any text.
>> I have the following alias in ~/.bashrc that has worked perfectly for me for
>> quite a while:
>> alias emacs="unset DISPLAY && emacs"

Does "emacs -nw" work any better?  How about "emacs -nw -Q" ?

-wolfgang
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