From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: flebber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Font error Syntax Date: 18 May 2007 03:39:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1179484766.345116.125980@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <1179323075.039832.153840@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179487928 3104 80.91.229.12 (18 May 2007 11:32:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:32:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 18 13:32:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hp0go-00031f-6w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 13:32:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hp0p0-0005sv-HJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 May 2007 07:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.253.78.67 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1179484766 14365 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2007 10:39:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:39:26 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1179323075.039832.153840@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070323 PCLinuxOS/2.0.0.3-3pclos2007 (2007) Firefox/2.0.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=220.253.78.67; posting-account=3JBjHA0AAACEXRiHf9GU3JXLxSfN0qWD Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148543 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:44135 Archived-At: On May 16, 11:44 pm, flebber wrote: > Hi > > I cannot get syntax working for emacs. I am on etch using gnome. I > receive the following error > > Quote: (xim-xlib/warning) Can't get fontset resource for Input Method > > I have checked the options in emacs the best I can ( I am still > learning emacs ) they do all appear to be okay. They are currently all > set to default values. I installed xutils package and xfonts package > was already installed. > > Any ideas on what to do next ? > > PS I tried setting the .emacs file to have > > Quote: (global-font-lock-mode 1) > > but this only creates further error > > Quote: (initialization/error) An error has occurred while loading / > home/flebber/.xemacs/init.el: > Symbol's function definition is void: global-font-lock- > mode > > I have ended up with 2 emacs installed Xemacs which this error is > coming from and emacs21 which cannot even render fonts. > Am only learning emacs, well trying too am getting most of info from > herehttp://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-faq.text. > > Not sure which is better to use xemacs or emacs21 ( am only using > Xemacs as emacs21 cannot render fonts) Bugger as I thought it is always the easy questions that somehow become the hardest..... Bit of extra info since I last posted I used 'M-x customize-browse' to alter xemacs configuration but surprise surprise the option for turning on font-lock-mode was disabled, why doth xemacs hate font-lock-mode so much ?