From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Dreaming in XEmacs Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:40:09 -0600 (CST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044851985 21846 80.91.224.249 (10 Feb 2003 04:39:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:39:45 +0000 (UTC) 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 18i5jM-0005g5-00 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:39:44 +0100 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 18i5kL-0001HH-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:40:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5k0-0001CJ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5jr-0000xk-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:40:18 -0500 Original-Received: from dell3.ma.utexas.edu ([146.6.139.124]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18i5jn-0000ng-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 23:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from linux132.ma.utexas.edu (jcorneli@linux132.ma.utexas.edu [146.6.139.107]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h1A4e9V02584 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 22:40:09 -0600 X-Sender: jcorneli@linux132.ma.utexas.edu Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: 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:6508 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6508 Hello -- Here are a couple of things I'd really like to see -- if they exist, I'd like to know about them, if not, it would be interesting to hear some discussion/hints about how to write the necessary code. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Item 1. Real-time array neatener for XEmacs %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I use XEmacs to write TeX code and when I encounter an array (especially a big one) I usually begin to feel a bit of a panic. Wouldn't it be nice if XEmacs kept the &'s lined up vertically, so that this took 15 seconds or less to write (instead of a minute or so of tedious fiddling): $$ \begin{array}{ccc} 0 & 1 & \alpha \\ \mathbf{F} & \beta & 1 \\ 0 & 1 & \gamma \\ \end{array} $$ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Item 2. Small font size for arrays. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% When I started using XEmacs a lot, I set up my configuration file to use a fairly big default font, 22pt I think -- in general, this seems to be the best way to use my "screen real estate". But when I come to an array I would prefer to switch back to 10pt or so. Presumably this is pretty easy to set up (whatever file makes \emph{italic} italic and $\alpha$ a different color and $$\alpha$$ a different color still can presumably be edited to support this). Any clues about the code (I don't want to mess this particular file up!)? Thanks -- Joe Corneli