Hello, I decided to use Gnus in a Linux text console.
The reasons are: - all the fonts for Emacs and/or XEmacs when under X are either too big or too small; there are just not enough intermediate font sizes, and my eyes are very sensitive - when running Emacs and/or XEmacs in "gnome-terminal" the fonts look way better and have many more intermediate steps (so font size is no longer an issue!), but my eyes start to hurt or I get a headache (thanks to anti-aliasing, I fear - though switching it off is no solution, because fonts look ugly then in Emacs AND in web browsers!) Now enough with that, let's get to my problem with Gnus in a Linux text console: I managed to get good utf support (for reading post in utf-8 AND for typing in all the characters (Umlaute, tilde etc.) I want) by using filterm and its dynafont filter. I launch Gnus like this: LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 exec filterm - dynafont emacs -nw --eval "(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9)" -f gnus-unplugged "$@" (I need the "exec", by the way, when using a bash script - otherwise, it doesn't work...) Everything appears to be all right (reading utf-8 messages, typing in Umlaute, euro sign etc.), but there is this one PROBLEM: control-g doesn't work any longer! (or in other words: keyboard-quit) This is very bad because I often need to abort a command. In many cases (like aborting a M-x... sequence) ESC-ESC-ESC is a good workaround. BUT: When loading articles for a very large group (thousands of articles, which will take a lot of time anyway) I can no longer abort that command, because control-g is not being recognized any more (and ESC-ESC-ESC doesn't work for interrupting a running command anyway). I tried to remap control-g to e.g. F6 (function key 6) or other keys I tried, but nothing works - it looks like control-g is something very special and that the code of Emacs doesn't allow for changing that! This means, running commands can no longer be interrupted/aborted when I use a utf-8 enabled Emacs/Gnus in a Linux text console. Does anyone have experience with this problem - or even better have a solution? many thanks Peter _______________________________________________ Info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
