Is there a nice way to get color-themes back with the compiled form of emacs? I tried installing the goodies package and it wouldn't configure due to the absence of the emacs23 package. On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:06 PM, John Wheaton wrote: > I have tried this invocation of emacs. It can run longer without hanging, > but it still hangs. I think I'm going to grab 23.3 and try it out. > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: > >> John Wheaton wrote: >> >> > Sorry to seem thick here... is that an environment variable setting? >> >> >> GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1 emacs >> >> Yes it is: >> >> bash> export var=val >> >> sets "var" for the rest of the shell session. >> >> bash> var=val program >> >> sets "var" just for the execution of "program". >> >> >> Also note that Debian has more recent packages than the one you are >> using, and it may well be fixed in one of those. Latest is 23.2+1-7. >> >> It would be great if you test the pretest for the coming 23.3 >> though... >> > >