Hi all, I have been a long time VIM user now trying to switch to emacs. I recently compiled emacs with XFT support (because one of the reasons I hated emacs is because of the ugly font it gives on X). I did not want to install it, so I just did a make and then kept it in a directory under my home folder. When I launch it using the command
./emacs -nw it behaves the same way as the installed emacs on my system does (installed emacs == the one that has been installed along with the OS). But if I create a custom launcher in GNOME which points to this binary and launch it, some of the variables I set in my .emacs does not work as expected. For eg, the exec-path. If I say describe-variable on exec-path, it shows the path properly (its set as I want it), but when I try to issue some commands in that path I get an error which says 'command not found'. (This problem is not seen when emacs is launched using './emacs -nw') But I am sure that my .emacs is being read. I verified it by making some mistakes in the .emacs file on purpose and emacs stops there indicating an error. I am interested only in this exec-path variable as I use a compiler installed inside my /opt directory and I want to compile all my programs using this compiler. One more interesting thing to note here is that, the exec-path variables works in M-X shell, but not in M-x eshell and also does not work when I issue M-x compile. (But works in all situations when I launch emacs with './emacs -nw') Another problem (which is not so important) I have is that, when I launch this compiled emacs with ./emacs (without -nw, from a terminal in X) the fonts do not appear. All I can see is just some boxes (except some characters like numbers and punctuation marks) Can anyone suggest something? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Suresh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mylug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
