From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Wilco Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs21 settings in Debian ? Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 10:24:19 +0200 Organization: les newsgroups par Wanadoo Message-ID: <429587b3$0$3132$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr> References: <429580d8$0$6880$636a15ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117099377 27574 80.91.229.2 (26 May 2005 09:22:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:22:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 11:22:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbEZ6-0000IE-5y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 11:22:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbEd8-0007lU-7R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 05:26:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <429580d8$0$6880$636a15ce@news.free.fr> Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 May 2005 10:24:20 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.126.99.193 Original-X-Trace: 1117095860 news.wanadoo.fr 3132 82.126.99.193:33120 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:131541 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27000 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27000 > I started my Linux adventure a couple of years ago with a Mandrake > distro. It was providing a version of Emacs - Ah ! With your Mandrake distro, was your emacs displaying antialiased fonts ? I am having a hard time displaying antia alised fonts with deban/ubuntu and I have a vague remembrance that my mandrake used to do that. > For instance, copying a block with C-space and M-w does not work It works on my ubuntu. I installed emacs with apt-get install emacs21. I move the cursor to the beginning of a word, type C-space then right five times, then M-w then move somewhere else, and type C-y. The previously copied characters are pasted. > I've googled around to see if there was a way to get the color back. Have you tried M-x font-lock-mode. I also put those lines in my .emacs to get convenient colors for the background and main font. (set-face-background 'default "DarkSlateGray") (set-face-foreground 'default "wheat") It works on my system (emacs on the console and emacs in X-window) I don't have your problems and It work that way out of the box. Maybe you can check that you do not have a previous .emacs lying in your home. Cheers,