From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier " Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21.3.50 on Mac OSX 10.2.2 Date: 06 Dec 2002 18:07:50 -0500 Organization: Yale University Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5l3cpalpa1.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <041220020952400758%ajanta@no.spam> <56cfb0e3.0212041458.5eab182a@posting.google.com> <061220020416350201%ajanta@no.spam> <061220021433180478%ajanta@no.spam> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039217390 17721 80.91.224.249 (6 Dec 2002 23:29:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18KRum-0004bZ-00 for ; Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:29:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18KRhX-0008It-00; Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:16:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.ycc.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu!rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.text.tex,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: rum.cs.yale.edu X-Original-Trace: 6 Dec 2002 18:07:52 -0500, rum.cs.yale.edu Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.mac.apps:348242 comp.text.tex:237532 gnu.emacs.help:107818 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4367 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4367 >>>>> "Ajanta" == Ajanta writes: > 1. There seem to be *three* executables of identical size (my disk is > not full, but why waste 16MB if one doesn't have to?): > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs* > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs* > /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/bin/emacs-21.3.50* Check their inodes: they should be hardlinks and thus wasting even less space than symlinks. > 2. Speaking of disk space, I am not going to use any language besides What kind of machine are you running this on ? I ask because my machine is about 6 years old by now and yet 50MB of disk space is not a big concern. This is not just rhetorical: the version 21.3.50 you're using is significantly larger than 21.2 and this was the result of a conscious decision, so I'd be interested to hear of how serious a problem it might be. > 3. When running emacs, "preference" panel in toolbar is broken. It is generally safe to assume that "broken" is a hopelessly useless characterization of a behavior. Please expand. > 4. The window is normal video (black text on white background). > I would prefer reverse video (white text on black background) if > possible. How to get that? Maybe the -rv option ? Otherwise, M-x customize-face RET default RET and change the foreground/background colors. > 5. At some point (I must have pressed the wrong key) the program > complained I don't have ispell. That is true, I haven't gotten around > to it and should. However, would aspell be better, as some claim, and > if so how to make emacs work with it instead? aspell emulates ispell so the ispell support works with aspell as well. Maybe someone has improved Emacs' ispell support to take advantage of some of the new features offered by aspell but I haven't heard about it. Stefan