From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Options Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:55:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422327622 26930 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2015 03:00:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 03:00:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 04:00:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YFwO4-0008TM-4i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:00:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45054 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFwO3-0006Mv-Ev for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:00:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.66.235 with SMTP id h71mr19730351yhd.42.1422327315442; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:55:15 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.50.142 with SMTP id c14mr282575igo.13.1422327315166; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:55:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!bm13no3229241qab.0!news-out.google.com!db6ni9188igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no2751825igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.21.195; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.21.195 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:55:15 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210027 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102306 Archived-At: On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at 12:41:58 AM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > On 2015-01-26, at 13:30, Dieter Britz wrote: > > > I have a brand new emacs installation in my new Kubuntu > > system, and I want to change a couple of things, but > > can't work out how. > > > > I would like to change the length of the lines to > > more characters; and I would like to change the > > highlighting colour to yellow instead of white as it is. > > > > How do I do these things, and make them permanent? I can > > of course drag the emacs window wider but that has to be > > done every time. > > > > Thanks for any help here. > > Welcome to Emacs! > > Try M-x customize. If you don't know what `M-x' means, try the built-in > tutorial (it's somewhere in the menu and AFAIR on the splash screen - > I have both disabled;-)). > > Also, you might want to look at the Emacs Wiki > http://www.emacswiki.org/, the Emacs.SE http://emacs.stackexchange.com/ > and (last but not least) the built-in Emacs manual (C-h r). > > Also - for starters - Mastering Emacs http://www.masteringemacs.org/ > from Mickey Petersen and Sacha Chua's site http://sachachua.com are > valuable resources. Yeah reading is good. This is probably useful https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Window-Size-X.html#Window-Size-X For starters try these experiments In a shell (after the '$' type: $ emacs -g 40x30-5+6 Change the -5+6 to +5-6 and all the other 4 combos. Then change the 40,30 [The x is needed] To 'permanent-ize' what you what, you will need to fix your options in one of 1 your emacs startup file 2 ~/.Xresources [see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources ] In 9 out of 10 cases 1 is the preferred option. In this case it may be 2 [Unfortunately X is a minefield]