Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
were referring to the name, but if fvwm somehow changes this (resource wise), you will be in trouble. You can experiment from a shell. Apparently, emacs looks into .Xdefaults whenever it starts. Just add -q to avoid reading your .emacs. You could also handle this from within your .emacs. You could

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
You're on target. Here's a sample of my ~/.Xresources copied from the sample Xdefaults that comes with Xemacs. Emacs.default.attributeBackground: white Emacs.default.attributeForeground: black The default Debian setup wants it named .Xresources (as opposed to .Xdefaults). --

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-24 Thread Big Gaute
Christian Lynbech on satellite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality. First note that X11 distinguishes

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: It only specifies 'usually' here, but it's still a bit confusing. Should I file a (wishlist) bug report, do you think? personally I think the .Xdefaults name is dumb, after all what does it contain? X resources! they are not defaults at all, defaults are what

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Some what recently, Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults :) Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: :) :) to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-23 Thread Big Gaute
Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some what recently, Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults :) Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :) :) On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: :) :) to my

Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-22 Thread Big Gaute
I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations: emacs.background: Black emacs.foreground: LimeGreen However this seems to have no effect. I got a tip

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the fvwm2 menus it does not work. What should I do? mv ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources coming from Redhat? -- Ethan Benson To obtain

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-22 Thread Big Gaute
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the fvwm2 menus it does not work. What should I do? mv ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-22 Thread Big Gaute
Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote: to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the fvwm2 menus it does not work. What

Re: Emacs and ~/.Xdefaults

2000-01-22 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:28:06PM +, Big Gaute wrote: I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations: emacs.background: Black emacs.foreground:

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Wintermute
Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Gilbert Laycock
Kirk == Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to Kirk read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ? Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because some X

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Wintermute wrote: Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-12-04 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the job! Since it only works for the

emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-11-30 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe emacs.font:

Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

1997-11-30 Thread Wintermute
Kirk Hilliard wrote: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1 ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe emacs.font: