From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob McMillin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: .Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:07:49 -0800 Message-ID: <454B9385.1020501@pricegrabber.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162581044 16064 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 19:10:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 20:10:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4Qd-0003Ky-MR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:10:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4Qd-0005UR-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:10:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4QH-0005IB-KC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4QC-0005Ae-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4QC-0005AG-H0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [66.75.162.136] (helo=ms-smtp-04.socal.rr.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gg4Q7-00032v-Gk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:09:44 -0500 Original-Received: from raggy.doubledogmusic.com (cpe-72-134-76-211.socal.res.rr.com [72.134.76.211]) by ms-smtp-04.socal.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kA3J9VpX021412 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:09:32 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (raggy.doubledogmusic.com [127.0.0.1]) by raggy.doubledogmusic.com (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kA3J7oJr004814 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:07:50 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060501 Fedora/1.7.13-1.1.fc5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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:38538 Archived-At: I'm re-asking this because it seems like the first time I asked all I got was crickets chirping... As a result of upgrading to Fedora Core 5, I also inherited the 21.4 release of emacs. The problem with this seems to be that the .Xdefaults file (set in the XENVIRONMENT environment variable) is no longer heeded as it was in the 21.3 release. Questions: 1) I've been over the new Info pages and it doesn't seem to mention .Xdefaults as a source of configuration data anymore that I can see. Am I missing something here? 2) If there is no way for this to work, how can I easily convert my .Xdefaults file (as lines in my .emacs file, say) so it sets up my emacs session colors to the way it used to be? Thanks for any help.