... other differences visible. Now that you know how to get and install necessary packages and how to configure and compile GNU Emacs you can create variants based on GTK, OSF/Motif (Lesstif), without Xaw3d, or using OpenLook (from Sun) ... "Now that I know" being the operative phrase? I'm reviewing this as a user who doesn't know, I.e. as I first came to it. Says, Use --without-...

... other differences visible. Now that you know how to get and install necessary packages and how to configure and compile GNU Emacs you can create variants based on GTK, OSF/Motif (Lesstif), without Xaw3d, or using OpenLook (from Sun) ... "Now that I know" being the operative phrase? I'm reviewing this as a user who doesn't know, I.e. as I first came to it. Says, Use --without-...

.... Now that you know how to get and install necessary packages and how to configure and compile GNU Emacs you can create variants based on GTK, OSF/Motif (Lesstif), without Xaw3d, or using OpenLook (from Sun) ... Says, Use --without-sound to disable sound support. No mention of the --with-sound=yes option that was mentioned by a couple of people? ./configure --help gives a...

...function. That would allow code to transition to various "themes" trivially. As an example, Tcl/Tk was an early portable GUI which reflected state of the art circa the 1980's (Motif, OpenLook etc). With the advent of MS windows, and its rapid evolution of eyecandy, the original tk was considered dated owing to it appearance. Never mind that programming a scripted GUI was dead nuts ...