README.md

A simple emacs-athena archlinux package

• does not depend on GTK
• uses athena widget library ( libxaw ), which is probably already installed on your system as a dependency of some base xorg package ( xterm )
• doesn't crash emacs --daemon ( GTK version does, when you close X )
• switching to emacs windows and between buffers seems to be smoother as it's just a very thin xlib widget set, but the difference is negligible
• if you turn off scroll-bar, tool-bar, and menu-bar ( there's no real reason you shouldn't ), athena last century style widgets won't bother you. I just turned them on for the screenshot.

emacs.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Emacs Text Editor
Name[de]=Emacs Texteditor
GenericName=Text Editor
Comment=Edit text
MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++;
Exec=emacs %f
Icon=emacs-icon
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=Development;TextEditor;
StartupWMClass=Emacs

emacs.install

ICON_PATH=/usr/share/icons/hicolor
INFO_DIR=/usr/share/info

INFO_FILES=(ada-mode auth autotype calc ccmode cl dbus dired-x ebrowse
ediff efaq eintr elisp emacs emacs-mime epa erc eshell eudc flymake
forms gnus idlwave info mairix-el message mh-e newsticker nxml-mode
org pcl-cvs pgg rcirc reftex remember sasl sc ses sieve smtpmail
speedbar tramp url vip viper widget woman)

post_install() {
  for f in ${INFO_FILES[@]}; do
    install-info ${INFO_DIR}/$f.gz ${INFO_DIR}/dir 2> /dev/null
  done
}

post_upgrade() {
  post_install $1
}

pre_remove() {
  for f in ${INFO_FILES[@]}; do
    install-info --delete ${INFO_DIR}/$f.gz ${INFO_DIR}/dir 2> /dev/null
  done
}

emacsd

#! /bin/sh

. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

#change this. too bad emacs daemon can't really work in mutli-user mode. for now.
USERNAME=volh
DESC="Run the emacs daemon."
NAME=emacs
#change this
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS="--daemon"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/rc.d/$NAME
#change this
EMACSCLIENT=/usr/bin/emacsclient

#EVALEXIT="(progn (setq kill-emacs-hook 'nil) (kill-emacs))"

# This one will save buffers in any case, without prompt(as save-buffers-kill-emacs will unconditionally do).
EVALEXIT="(progn (save-some-buffers t t)(kill-emacs))"

# This will save the desktop, but not the buffers themselves
#EVALEXIT="(progn (desktop-save-in-desktop-dir)(kill-emacs))"

case "$1" in
  start)
        stat_busy "Starting Emacs"
        su $USERNAME -c "$DAEMON $DAEMON_ARGS" > /dev/null && (add_daemon emacs; stat_done) || stat_fail
  ;;
  stop)
        stat_busy "Stopping Emacs"
        su $USERNAME -c "$EMACSCLIENT --eval \"$EVALEXIT\""  && ( rm_daemon emacs; stat_done ) || stat_fail
  ;;
  restart|force-reload)
        $0 stop
        sleep 1
        $0 start
  ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 3
  ;;
esac

PKGBUILD

# $Id: PKGBUILD 134523 2011-08-05 07:55:30Z juergen $
# Maintainer: Juergen Hoetzel <juergen@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Renchi Raju <renchi@green.tam.uiuc.edu>
pkgname=emacs-athena
pkgver=23.3a
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The Emacs Editor, with Athena widget toolkit"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html"
license=('GPL')
options=(docs)
replaces=(cedet emacs)
provides=(emacs)
conflicts=(emacs)
depends=('dbus-core' 'librsvg' 'gpm'  'giflib' 'libtiff'  'libxpm' 'libjpeg' 'libxaw' 'texinfo' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/emacs-$pkgver.tar.gz emacs.desktop)
md5sums=('20aef9ea5b5bf8050d39f8b1e96a1c04'
         '8af038d2ba4561271e935bb444ceb4e3')
install=emacs.install

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/emacs-${pkgver%[a-z]}
  mandir=/usr/share/man

  # gcc 4.5 Workaround: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43904
  CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-optimize-sibling-calls"\
    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
    --localstatedir=/var --mandir=${mandir} --without-sound --with-x-toolkit=athena
  make
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

  # remove conflict with ctags package
  mv $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/{ctags,ctags.emacs}
  mv $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/{etags,etags.emacs}
  mv $startdir/pkg${mandir}/man1/{etags.1,etags.emacs.1}
  mv $startdir/pkg${mandir}/man1/{ctags.1,ctags.emacs.1}
  # fix all the 777 perms on directories
  find $startdir/pkg/usr/share/emacs/${pkgver%[a-z]} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
  # fix user/root permissions on usr/share files
  find $startdir/pkg/usr/share/emacs/${pkgver%[a-z]} -exec chown root.root {} \;
  # fix perms on /var/games
  chmod 775 ${startdir}/pkg/var/games
  chmod 775 ${startdir}/pkg/var/games/emacs
  chmod 664 ${startdir}/pkg/var/games/emacs/*
  chown -R root:50 ${startdir}/pkg/var/games


  # fix  FS#9253
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/applications
  install -D -m644 ${startdir}/src/emacs.desktop   ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/applications
  ln -s  ../emacs/${pkgver%[a-z]}/etc/images/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/emacs.png $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/emacs-icon.png
}