From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:15:08 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87zjsuv7vn.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87d2pzj4m2.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87ob9izk9k.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> <87fvusw968.fsf@newsguy.com> <87mwoz2gzr.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375824014 29062 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2013 21:20:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 21:20:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 06 23:20:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V6ofx-0001Em-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:20:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50226 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6ofx-00057p-2m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:20:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.87.200 with SMTP id ba8mr61154wib.0.1375823709291; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!g3no13755924wic.0!news-out.google.com!cc8ni16176wib.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!82.197.223.108.MISMATCH!feeder2.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.109.133.83.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:od9xnzcU4DtM3HhpzYV0UhpGzWk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200494 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92761 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: > Shared logins? Makes no sense to me. Where is the security in > that. No, probably some ancient way of sharing, when a small group of people were on a techno-science facility with a huge mainframe, which they used to estimate the trajectories of Russian nukes... > Anyway, since you brought up dealing with different monitor > sizes here's how I deal with rxvt on different terminal sizes > using xrdb and X-resources: > > #if ( HEIGHT == 900 ) /* Traditional Sparc */ > Rxvt.geometry: 80x55 > #elif ( HEIGHT == 1024 ) /* Sparc 21 inch */ > Rxvt.geometry: 80x65 > #elif ( HEIGHT == 768 ) /* Exceed in 1024x768 mode */ > Rxvt.geometry: 80x47 > #else /* I have no idea... */ > Rxvt.geometry: 80x40 > #endif Cool - I didn't know you could branch in .Xresources. What syntax is that - the C preprocessor? > The man page reveals other values you can access besides HEIGHT. What man page? > Another person mentioned running xrdb and reading an .Xdefaults > file. A common problem with .Xdefaults is that it can rapidly > accumulate huge amounts of junk. > > Here's how I deal with that in my .xinitrc: > > cat $HOME/xdef/*.ad | xrdb -load Doesn't that mean you don't use .Xdefaults? > The xdef directory contains: > > Emacs.ad > exmh.ad > xterm.ad > etc. > > Makes it easy to remove things you no longer use. You mean, you remove it, by not adding it every time X starts? What extension is .ad? -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573