Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
quoth the Lord Sauron: > > I tried that, and emerge --pretend promptly told me that xorg 6.9 or > something was blocking virtually everything x-related. > It was really > weird. Not weird, it wants you to install Xorg 7.0 which is modular. Ie: you must unmerge Xorg 6.x altogether and then reinstall. xorg-x11 is now a virtual package which brings in all the now modular parts that you need. See: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 09:53, Robert Cernansky wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:11 -0700 Lord Sauron
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > quoth the Lord Sauron:
>
> [...]
>
> > > > What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and
>
> [...]
>
> > Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode,
> > but the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup
> > other than mine and they threw me off real quickly.
>
> Did you try ran emacs in X also? Is there the same behaviour? In X
> you can pres Shift + Left mouse click to select fonts.
>
> You can also play with locale setting in your system. For example try
> to start emacs with default/none locale:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C emacs
>
> To set emacs to use UTF-8 put this into your ~/.emacs file:
>
> (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
> (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "" 'utf-8)
> (setq process-coding-system-alist '((".*" . utf-8)))
> (setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))
>
> But it should not be necessary if you use some UTF-8 locale in your
> system (emacs will use UTF-8 by default then). You can also try to
> change the 'utf-8' string to some other (non utf-8) enconding, for
> example iso-8859-1.
>
> Try to emerge some basic X.Org fonts, for example
> media-fonts/font-misc-misc. Also emerge media-fonts/intlfonts.
I tried that, and emerge --pretend promptly told me that xorg 6.9 or
something was blocking virtually everything x-related. It was really
weird. It's also blocking xemacs (the package I think will fix this
mess). This probably means that I have to go find and fix my package
masks. The difficulty there is that there's a ton of junk I'm still
using (like Eclipse 3.1) which is masked. I think this is going to end
up being a battle between me and portage to sort out my package masks.
Is there a untampered copy of packages.mask (or whatever it's called)
that I can use to compare with mine to try and fix this mess?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:11 -0700 Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > quoth the Lord Sauron:
[...]
> > > What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and
[...]
> Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode,
> but the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup
> other than mine and they threw me off real quickly.
Did you try ran emacs in X also? Is there the same behaviour? In X you
can pres Shift + Left mouse click to select fonts.
You can also play with locale setting in your system. For example try
to start emacs with default/none locale:
$ LC_ALL=C emacs
To set emacs to use UTF-8 put this into your ~/.emacs file:
(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-clipboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(modify-coding-system-alist 'file "" 'utf-8)
(setq process-coding-system-alist '((".*" . utf-8)))
(setq x-select-request-type '(UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING))
But it should not be necessary if you use some UTF-8 locale in your
system (emacs will use UTF-8 by default then). You can also try to
change the 'utf-8' string to some other (non utf-8) enconding, for
example iso-8859-1.
Try to emerge some basic X.Org fonts, for example
media-fonts/font-misc-misc. Also emerge media-fonts/intlfonts.
I hope it helps.
Robert
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Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
quoth the Lord Sauron: > > Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode, but > the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup other > than mine and they threw me off real quickly. > I also spent some time looking through the Gentoo Wiki and found that > there's a grand total of one article about emacs. Not much help. Sorry your still having a rough time of it. Does this help: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html#Fontsets Half joking here but, if you want help with emacs then give #scheme on freenode a try...they just luvs their emacs there... > I'll keep trying though. Still not convinced you should just use vim ;) -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
On Saturday 09 September 2006 04:05, darren kirby wrote: > quoth the Lord Sauron: > > > > 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. > > This is but a taste of the pain and suffering you will experience > when you use emacs. Just use vim already ;) > > Seriously though...I am not familiar with emacs but I think your > problem may be solved in one of two ways > > 1. Configure emacs to use us-ascii as the default charset (no idea > how). 2. Configure your console to use a unicode charset (see [1]) > > Just taking a shot in the dark here... Much more confused than before. I get why I'd want to use unicode, but the instructions on how to do that were outdated or for a setup other than mine and they threw me off real quickly. I also spent some time looking through the Gentoo Wiki and found that there's a grand total of one article about emacs. Not much help. I'll keep trying though. -- http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/ pgpJTqMG0G1Q9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
quoth the Lord Sauron: > 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. This is but a taste of the pain and suffering you will experience when you use emacs. Just use vim already ;) Seriously though...I am not familiar with emacs but I think your problem may be solved in one of two ways 1. Configure emacs to use us-ascii as the default charset (no idea how). 2. Configure your console to use a unicode charset (see [1]) Just taking a shot in the dark here... > Thanks for your time! HTH [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emacs - (I think [the]) Fonts [are] Broken
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/ pgp860nW8wNrs.pgp Description: PGP signature
