Re: Emacs & X

2002-01-06 Thread Mike Renfro
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:26:02AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Is there any version of emacs that isn't dependent upon having > XFree86 installed? If you rebuild it yourself, I'm sure any version of emacs is X-optional. > I love emacs. I can't install XFree86 (or rather, don't need to > waste t

Re: Emacs/X problems...

2001-09-01 Thread Joel Mayes
> "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aaron> When I start emacs, using my trusty old .emacs file I've Aaron> been keeping and maintaining for years, The colors I've Aaron> selected aren't quite working right. Basically, I set the Aaron> background color to black,

Re: Emacs/X problems...

2001-08-31 Thread Aaron Traas
Yes, I am running KDE 2.1.1, and that was the problem! Everything works now. I did have to restart X to get this to work, however... Thanks for your help!! --Aaron Daniel Katz wrote: > > > "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aaron> I'm using Woody/testing, and XFree86 4.

Re: Emacs/X problems...

2001-08-31 Thread Daniel Katz
> "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aaron> I'm using Woody/testing, and XFree86 4.x. I'm using emacsen Aaron> flavor of Emacs20. Aaron> Basically, I set the background color to black, and that works, Aaron> except or where there's text. Each character taken up by Aaron> somet

Emacs/X problems...

2001-08-31 Thread Aaron Traas
I'm using Woody/testing, and XFree86 4.x. I'm using emacsen flavor of Emacs20. When I start emacs, using my trusty old .emacs file I've been keeping and maintaining for years, The colors I've selected aren't quite working right. Basically, I set the background color to black, and that works, exce

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key--SOLVED!

1998-01-23 Thread Mark Phillips
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > The `problem' is that the Alt keys aren't acting as the

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Kirk Hilliard
Hi Mark! > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) I'm running a Toshiba Tecra 730CDT, and the Alt key in emacs under X works fine in combination with other keys without any special setup. What model is

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Well it may not quite follow the discussion... I'm using XEmacs 20 and X-3.2.2 (hamm). I have the keyboard with "Windows" button neighbouring to ALT button. It works like ESC in XEmacs. May be it's good enough solution. The good thing is that I just followed whatever was the default in t

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > Daniel Martin wrote: > > > What is the result of the following commands: > > xmodmap > > xmodmap -pke | grep -E '

Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Peter S Galbraith writes: > >If XFree is setup correctly, then the `Windows' key (identified above as >Win), are Meta keys and the Alt keys are really seen in Emacs as Alt keys. >I use the Alt key to insert 8-bit characters, like "é". >The `Menu' key really works and is a synonym for `Meta-x' in E

Re: Using xmodmap to set the Alt and Meta keys (emacs, X, and Alt key)

1998-01-21 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Mark Phillips wrote: > I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to > recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) > > keycode 64 = Alt_L > keycode 113 = Alt_R > keycode 115 = Meta_L > keycode 116 = Meta_R What does emacs say when you invoke describe-

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-21 Thread Mark Phillips
I, like Thomas Vaughan, have been having problems getting emacs to recognise the Alt key under X. (The system is a Toshiba laptop.) Daniel Martin wrote: > What is the result of the following commands: > xmodmap > xmodmap -pke | grep -E '64|11[356]' Here are the results: $ xmodmap xmodmap: up

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. > I have commented out two lines in my XF86config like that: # To set the LeftAl

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
> My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. Run `xev' and press the Alt keys to find what keycode they generate: For example, I get: keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R)

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Mark Phillips
> I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch > between windows. > > I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering a

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Thomas E. Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. > > I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. > My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' > by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination

emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-11 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch between windows. I much pref