From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:32:46 +0100 Message-ID: References: <454B9385.1020501@pricegrabber.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162582405 20450 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2006 19:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 20:33:23 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 1Gg4mv-0007bv-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:33:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4mu-0002em-HR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:33:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4mg-0002ZV-G2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4mb-0002Nh-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:32:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gg4mb-0002NQ-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.234] (helo=fmmailgate03.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gg4mb-00073I-71 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C7C3326987E; Fri, 3 Nov 2006 20:32:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [84.245.181.239] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1Gg4mW-00015c-00; Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:32:48 +0100 In-Reply-To: <454B9385.1020501@pricegrabber.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Rob McMillin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:38540 Archived-At: Am 03.11.2006 um 20:07 schrieb Rob McMillin: > 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? Yes. ~/.Xdefaults was never a file any version of GNU Emacs used. This file is used by xrdb. This X client puts X resources into a kind of X environment (X resources DB). Since xrdb (and xmodmap and xset) are the first X clients launched by the X server when it interprets ~/.xinitrc, what they set every other X client inherits. As long as the resources are meant for this client ... -- Greetings Pete UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.