Re: info files

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> I see.  People from the corner of the world near Slackware tend to like
> "minimalism" as a result they tend not to use Emacs

Really?  I thought Slackers were the smartest Linux hackers so they 
would use the smartest editor.  :)

> info.  (Understand this isn't a direct allegation against Zenwalk, it's
> just been something I've noticed in other Slackware derivatives).
> Slackware itself supports Emacs reasonably though.

I'm not entirely happy with ZW, so I may try Slack.  Minimalism in ZW 
includes a lack of install options, lots of missing fonts, no texinfo, 
nonfunctioning sound, and not the greatest online support in the world. 
  Oh, well.  At 400MB, it's a convenient download.

problem with background color setting

hi,

I've been struggling to set the default background color of my emacs.

First I tried setting it on my .emacs

(if window-system
    (progn 
      (color-theme-initialize)
      (color-theme-vim-colors)
      (set-background-color "ivory")))

upon startup it's set to ivory but when all the startup routine is
ended it's reset to white. Then I moved the set-background-color
command to be the last line on the file, same result.

Then I tried using .Xdefaults
Emacs*background: #FFFFF0

I get the same.

Then I read at the emacs wiki section KDEandColor and changed my gtk
theme to clearlooks and others, useless.

am I missing something here? 

Please help!

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Re: hightlight if/ifdef blocks

Fang lun gang <no <at> mail.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin  <m.gercke <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>     Martin> Hi, after reading some rules about not nesting c comments and using
>     Martin> #if 0 instead 
>     Martin> // not_used_at_the_moment();
>
> Would you please share the rules of why not nesting c comments?
>
> I used to thought it is ok to nest comments marked using "//".

// are not « native » C comment 

I think Martin was talking about nesting /* */. The use of #if 0 is
quite a good practice.

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Re: emacs in xterm

zeycus <miguelgarciadiaz <at> ono.com> writes:

> don provan-2 wrote:
>> 
>> [...] once you get used to multiple windows [...]

> Wow, thank you for the opinions and suggestions! I am not sure yet,
> whether or not I want to "jump" to the xemacs multi-window system,
> but I'll give it a try!

I think that some gurus here would be tickled by reading this (OMG-ed)
shortcut « Emacs on X == XEmacs » 

You probably should have a read to, for example, the wikipedia page on
that ! XEmacs is not Emacs.

(Please add `GNU/' before every proper name !)

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Find File Default Directory

I just installed emacs 21.3 on Windows XP.  When I first start emacs
and find file with C-X C-F, the directory "C:/bin/emacs-21.3/bin/"
shows up in the mini buffer.  I'd rather it defaulted to
"C:/usr/home/".  I already have the environment variables HOME and
EMACSDIR set to "C:/usr/home/".

Thanks in advance for any help.

Andrew

Re: Find File Default Directory

"Andrew Baine" <albaine <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I just installed emacs 21.3 on Windows XP.  When I first start emacs
> and find file with C-X C-F, the directory "C:/bin/emacs-21.3/bin/"
> shows up in the mini buffer.  I'd rather it defaulted to
> "C:/usr/home/".  I already have the environment variables HOME and
> EMACSDIR set to "C:/usr/home/".

Hi!

My knowledge in  Windows is quite old and  probably simply deprecated,
but if you have a shortcut  to the binary `emacs', in the `Properties'
of this shortcut, don't you have something like « Start binary in this
directory » ?

It may be the parameter to tweak, nop ?

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Re: Find File Default Directory

That solves the problem perfectly.  Thank you very much.

Michaël Cadilhac wrote:
> "Andrew Baine" <albaine <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I just installed emacs 21.3 on Windows XP.  When I first start emacs
> > and find file with C-X C-F, the directory "C:/bin/emacs-21.3/bin/"
> > shows up in the mini buffer.  I'd rather it defaulted to
> > "C:/usr/home/".  I already have the environment variables HOME and
> > EMACSDIR set to "C:/usr/home/".
>
> Hi!
>
> My knowledge in  Windows is quite old and  probably simply deprecated,
> but if you have a shortcut  to the binary `emacs', in the `Properties'
> of this shortcut, don't you have something like « Start binary in this
> directory » ?
>
> It may be the parameter to tweak, nop ?
>
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Re: emacs in xterm

zeycus <miguelgarciadiaz <at> ono.com> writes:

> Wow, thank you for the opinions and suggestions! I am not sure yet,
> whether or not I want to "jump" to the xemacs multi-window system,
> but I'll give it a try!

Note that Emacs and Xemacs are two totally *different* programs. GNU
Emacs can be built with and without X windows support. Most Linux
distributions include an Emacs and an Emacs-nox (or something
similar). The emacs with window support can also be run without the
X windows features using the -nw switch. 

Xemacs can only be run on an X windows system (i.e. you cannot run it
in a term or on the console etc). It represents a fork from the
original emacs sources which occured some years ago. While the two
emacs flavors are very similar, there are a number of internal
differences between the two, such as how they handle font locking. Its
not unusual to find elisp packages which have tests to determine if it
is running under GNU Emacs or Xemacs and then does flavor specific
stuff - this allows an elisp package to work under both systems. 

HTH

Tim
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Re: emacs in xterm

Tim X <timx <at> nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>Xemacs can only be run on an X windows system (i.e. you cannot run it
>in a term or on the console etc).

Everything else was accurate, but in fact XEmacs can be run in a term
or on the console etc., just exactly the same as GNU Emacs by either
using the -nw option with the version built for X, or by building
it without X support.

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Re: emacs in xterm

Just now I found a kind message from Michaël pointing this out.
I apologize, I was completely unaware of this fact. As I explained
I am a newbie in Linux, so I naively thought
that GNU Xemacs was a sort of adaptation of GNU Emacs in X.
Now I see these are different things, but there was no offense
intended in my message, just plain ignorance.

Thank you for kindly making the situation clear to me.

Tim X-2 wrote:
> 
> zeycus <miguelgarciadiaz <at> ono.com> writes:
> 
>> Wow, thank you for the opinions and suggestions! I am not sure yet,
>> whether or not I want to "jump" to the xemacs multi-window system,
>> but I'll give it a try!
> 
> Note that Emacs and Xemacs are two totally *different* programs. GNU
> Emacs can be built with and without X windows support. Most Linux
> distributions include an Emacs and an Emacs-nox (or something
> similar). The emacs with window support can also be run without the
> X windows features using the -nw switch. 
> 
> Xemacs can only be run on an X windows system (i.e. you cannot run it
> in a term or on the console etc). It represents a fork from the
> original emacs sources which occured some years ago. While the two
> emacs flavors are very similar, there are a number of internal
> differences between the two, such as how they handle font locking. Its
> not unusual to find elisp packages which have tests to determine if it