From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ivan Danicic" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xfonts Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:01:54 +0100 Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3EB1A94A.5040200@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051902312 17982 80.91.224.249 (2 May 2003 19:05:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 19:05:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 02 21:05:10 2003 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 19Bfpf-0004dX-00 for ; Fri, 02 May 2003 21:04:31 +0200 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 19Bfqb-0003Jw-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2003 15:05:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.193.218.27 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk 1051902063 80.193.218.27 (Fri, 02 May 2003 19:01:03 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 19:01:03 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112672 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9166 "Kevin Rodgers" wrote in message news:3EB1A94A.5040200@yahoo.com... > Ivan Danicic wrote: > > > Hello all, I have just obtained emacs 21.3.1. for linux suse 8.0. which has > > a slight glitch. If I enter "emacs" I get a split window which says 'cannot > > load file xfonts' and it suggests running 'emacs --debug-init'. This says > > (file-error "cannot open load file" xfonts) and to look in init file for > > cause. What does this mean? My .emacs contains nothing about xfonts. The > > emacs window is otherwise OK but I get error messages of type "cannot find > > ... font". If I enter "emacs -q" I get a good starting window > > > Then the problem is in the default.el file. Use `M-x locate-library RET > default RET' to find out which load-path directory contains it. > > > but this is > > presumably not quite satisfactory. Any suggestions gratefully received. > > Read the "Init File" node of the Emacs manual: > snip > |> Kevin Rodgers > Yes thanks. I have commented out the line (if (emacs-major-version 20)(require 'xfonts)) from the two .gnu-emacs files. Now the thing looks OK but wouldn't it be nice to have these xfonts? I can't find them (as 'xfonts'). Ivan.