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 22:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <05f825db-d5be-4573-b7c2-4a968928df2c@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> <32f22e4c-2240-45f2-bace-681ca518ecdd@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <70de5810-2e8b-4671-b6c0-cca819d0868a@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <3c7cb96b-cf76-464f-b2ef-e7bd62652211@i76g2000hsf.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 1213422178 16378 80.91.229.12 (14 Jun 2008 05:42:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:42:58 +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 07:43:41 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 1K7OY8-0003Ca-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K7OXK-0001JI-0n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:42:50 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f36g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.31.205.57 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1213421977 4679 127.0.0.1 (14 Jun 2008 05:39:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f36g2000hsa.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:159457 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:54813 Archived-At: > 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: i 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 whom what to do? imp.