From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vignoble101 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs21 settings in Debian ? Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:55:03 +0200 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Message-ID: <429580d8$0$6880$636a15ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117095911 17860 80.91.229.2 (26 May 2005 08:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 08:25:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 10:25:06 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbDfX-0002mV-DC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbDhb-0003F7-Mu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 04:26:51 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!proxad.net!infeed-2.proxad.net!news5-e.free.fr!not-for-mail User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 May 2005 09:55:04 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.225.34.153 Original-X-Trace: 1117094104 news5-e.free.fr 6880 82.225.34.153:41168 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131538 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26998 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26998 Good morning all. I started my Linux adventure a couple of years ago with a Mandrake distro. It was providing a version of Emacs - I wouldn't be able to tell you which one - which was just doing quite well ! I spent a whole summer experiencing Java coding using that very nice and efficient tool this newsgroup is dedicated to. Probably some would argue that there is nothing such as a real Java IDE, but I never could get along well with the idea that I need to purchase a brand new computer with gigs of memory and megahertz for the sake of typing nice anti-aliased characters that will never fit to my screen among all those toolbars, icons and funky starving-for-pixels GUIs. As Vi sounded a bit raw to me, I went for Emacs. The tutorial was perfect, but too short. So I bought myself an O'Reilly book on that subject. Everything was crystal clear and Emacs was responding perfectly to any command. So, as my Linux adventure was going on, I was lead to try different distros (mainly Redhat & Fedora), got hacked in and messed up, and had to leave my coding activity apart for getting a little bit more involved into that networking and admin stuff. Anyways... now my choice is made and I stick to Debian :) Now here comes the pain. In its Debian pre-compiled version, Emacs21 does not display colors. The keystrokes sound different that what I was used to. For instance, copying a block with C-space and M-w does not work. So I have to use C-space / C-w , yank back, and yank again at the place I want to paste. A bit annoying... I will not make a long list of all my observations, but I must say that I'm pretty confused. So far I have not been very involved in my research to solve this. I've googled around to see if there was a way to get the color back. All I could find was how to change the existing color settings... So I've tryed to re-install my Emacs21 from the source and could not even get it to start ! So basically, I'm into big trouble. I don't no if the keystrokes pain in the ass comes along with the new flavour...? I must admit I don't really want to get involved into elisp hacking, but maybe I should give a try on how to configure Emacs properly before compiling the sources. Anyway guys, any help or suggestion is more than welcome, as I would like to get back to the scene and make the most of my proud console ! GNU rules !! Vince.