From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: imputerate Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Xterm and Readline (was: select large text with mouse) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8ec7da3a-ce8e-4441-9d0a-5fa3fd25287d@y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213425644 22298 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 06:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 14 08:41:28 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 1K7PS2-0005dS-8y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7PRE-0006po-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-References: cf2c0160-c6c9-4c5d-9d9a-ed28895930c4@f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.31.205.57 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213422184 5178 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 05:43:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:43:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.31.205.57; posting-account=nLw1LAgAAAC-__9kTF1Cg2C1w3aPdEcE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159458 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:54815 Archived-At: On Jun 14, 12:39=A0am, imputerate wrote: > > imputerate promised to: > > > >> plow through the .Xresources, > > > > .Xdefaults configurations for xterm and emacs; > > > joel replied: > > > > X resources are not the only way to configure the Emacs display, > > > although they are the best I've found for setting the default face and= > > > background. =A0Same goes in xterm: it's much better than putting "-fg > > > white -bg black -geometry..." in every desktop icon or making it an > > > alias. > > imputerate writes: > > > yes; i think so too; i have only face and background for xterm and > > emacs in .Xresources, but i wonder if .Xdefaults is also sourced by > > some of xterm/bash, anyway for root. > > > can someone direct me to a discussion of the priorities which obtain > > among all these config files; for, example, i understand from several > > posts here and there that .Xresources preempts .emacs; thanks, > > imputerate > > update from imputerate: > =A0i just set, in .Xresources, a distinctive face for both emacs and > xterm. the face showed up in emacs, buy NOT in the xterm/bash window; > does that say something about who's telling =A0whom what to do? imp. OUCH! sorry; i was wrong. the changes DID show up in a new xterm/bash window; does that mean i should have a "resource" line in my .Xresources file? imp[ortunate].