Re: [h-e-w] Emacs 21.1 Oddities

[Stephen (Montsaroff) Saroff]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> 
> "Stephen (Montsaroff) Saroff" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > There are some oddities/changes in NT Emacs 21.1 which I can figure out
> > how to change.
> >
> >       1. Unicode support seems to be missing.
> Emacs 21.1 has very basic utf-8 support built in, but 20.7 had no
> Unicode support whatsoever, so I don't know how you could think it is
> missing compared to 20.7.

I was able to get the MUCS stuff working with a little jiggery-pokery
and get the automatic behavior I was looking for.

Any plans to include this functionality..

> 
> >       2. Setting fonts doesn't seem to entirely work as I
> >          would exprect.
> >
> >          I use s-mouse-1 to change the size of a font (say)
> >          and nothing happens.
> 
> There is a known bug that only iso8859-1 (Western) encoded fonts work
> as the default ASCII font. Perhaps that is what you are seeing? What
> is the exact font that you are selecting? Do other fonts (eg. Courier
> New) work?


I was working only with Courier New and it had no effect

> 
> >       4. I no longer get a bell on errors (e.g. search failures)
> 
> Can you try to reproduce this with "emacs -q --no-site-file"? If the
> bell works there, then go through your .emacs (and default.el and
> site-start.el if you have them), to try to find what causes it.


There is no bell even if I run emacs -q --no-site-file.  beep doesn't
seem to be loaded.

> >       5. I would like to change the width of fringes and can't
> >          how to.
> 
> You can't in 21.1. The bitmaps that are printed there are hardcoded
> and need 8 pixels of width. Probably in 21.3 something will be done
> about this.
> 
> >       6. If I start with --iconic, emacs ignores -geometry arguements
> >          and (setq default-frame-alist and set-frame position commands
> >          in my .emacs).
> >
> >       7. Is there a way to override things such as default font,
> >          and position globally (e.g. not in the .emacs file) or
> >          does one have to build and dump .emacs
> 
> See the chapter "X Resources" in the Emacs manual. On Windows
> resources are set in the registry.
Is there a mode-line resource?

BTW, the resources appear to be case sensative....
> 
> --
> Jason Rumney

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