I can't figure out how to fix this one - NOT for lack of trying, however. I'm slowly trying to become more terminal-friendly and less GUI-dependent. I also keep hearing how Emacs is so cool and powerful and useful and blah. So I decided to try and learn it and see for myself.
Installed it on my Kubuntu desktop and it worked fine. On my Gentoo laptop... a whole other story. I have app-editors/emacs v21.4-r4 installed. I don't have xemacs or xemacs-base installed. This is probably applicable, so that's why I'm including it. When I use emacs I see the menus and all things X11, however, the editor shows nothing but those annoying blocks that signify some kind of problem with the font. I tried changing the fontset and stuff, but only succeeded in crashing X twice and then making the boxes smaller or larger and then crashing X. I looked though Portage and by a total miracle found media-fonts/ (was using Kuroo, which organizes things like media/fonts, so I didn't look in media/ for fonts, so I almost missed it). I installed a few fonts that I thought might rectify the situation, however, they didn't. What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and useful editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its many variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please) so any assistance would be very helpful. Thanks for your time! -- http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/
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