From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cursor/tab/highlighting problems in gnome-terminal Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:14:15 -0400 Message-ID: <87fxqdgnso.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> References: <20080711104602.GA17131@stats.ox.ac.uk> <87y745icjw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216005576 540 80.91.229.12 (14 Jul 2008 03:19:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:19:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 14 05:20:22 2008 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 1KIEbt-00056m-KT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:20:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32813 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIEb1-00046z-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIEah-00045Y-HH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIEah-00044w-3K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44534 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIEag-00044o-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:06 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpsrv1.isis.unc.edu ([152.2.1.140]:51879 helo=smtp.unc.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIEac-0004Jx-J5; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from edna (cpe-066-026-057-245.nc.res.rr.com [66.26.57.245]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.unc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m6E3ICrE005014; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:18:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y745icjw.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:34:11 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:55529 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) writes: >> Also, xterm is a highly under-rated terminal emulator, and is very >> configurable (give the man page a look). >> >> Perhaps your problem is in how you choose to set things up, rather than >> a real Emacs problem? > > gnome-terminal is a very capable terminal emulator though, and runs > emacs fine as far as I can tell. I agree, however I've found that for a lot of things where I went "against the grain" I later found a much easier way to do things. Editing remote files, for example, is much easier using tramp than relying on the remote system's version of Emacs (my university has not updated Emacs since 2000). I also thought Xterm was crap until I gave it a real shot, and now I use it all the time. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson (303) 880-3109 Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj http://trashbird1240.blogspot.com