Re: X Resources for emacs

2019-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 05:30:58AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
 
> Indeed I overstepped.  I am sorry.

Thank you. 

I too regret the intemperance of one of my closing remarks. 


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dismissed without evidence.
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Re: X Resources for emacs

2019-07-10 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić


Indeed I overstepped.  I am sorry.



Re: X Resources for emacs

2019-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:14:19AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:

> The discussion ideally takes place on the
> debian-user list.  

Your email, and action, are most unpleasant. "Ideally" you might 
think about leaving people alone to follow their fate as best 
they can. Normally, in a case such as yours, that is exactly 
what I would be trying to do, but since you appear to be quite 
impulsive and therefore potentially dangerous to others, 
something must be said.

> Cc-ed.

Totally unacceptable. Did it dawn on you to ask me about such a 
step as cc'ing my note to debian-users? Did you suppose that 
perhaps I realized that is where "ideally" I should have placed 
my inquiry, but that I was prevented from doing so by the 
intercession of magical forces aligned against me? Is that what 
you think?

On the other hand, did you pause even for moment to consider, 
"Perhaps Mr. Bernstein would rather not post to debian-user?" 
Somehow I doubt that. (Whether or not that consideration is true 
is none of your business.)

I am working very hard to stay away from any ad hominem 
discourse. I'll keep it "about me." In well over twenty years (I 
believe) posting to various debian lists, including debian-doc, 
debian-user, and others, I cannot recall someone with 
'.debian.org' email domain taking it on himself to move my mail 
to another list without so much as a "Hi How do you do?"

You typify why the European Union is approaching its death 
throes. (Okay, I failed to steer clear of ad hominem. Firing 
squad at dawn?)

-- 
What can be asserted without evidence can be 
dismissed without evidence.
 Hitchens' Razor



Re: X Resources for emacs

2019-07-10 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
Hi Bob,

Thanks for reporting your issue.  The discussion ideally takes place on the
debian-user list.  Cc-ed.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 01:33:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I very glad to have debiandoc-sgml (which I have loved for 
> years) playing quite nicely with psgml in emacs 24.5.1. 
> This is in a recent upgrade to stretch:
> 
> Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 
> 4.9.168-1+deb9u3 (2019-06-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have no troule enlarging the text (or "page") font used 
> by emacs -- using my .emacs file -- but the menu titles 
> and drop-downs require me to use a magnifying glass due to 
> my poor (and a bit old) vision.
> 
> I believe the size of these screen artefacts (menu titles 
> etc.) could be tweaked using X Resources. This instance of 
> emacs is linked to GTK. I have not yet been able to find 
> the names of the needed resources for my problem.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> "In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of 
> politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics 
> itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and 
> schizophrenia."
> 
>  George Orwell "Politics and the English Language" (1946) 
>