From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Britz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Options Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422284705 30719 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2015 15:05:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:05:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 16:05:04 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 1YFlDs-0006vw-Io for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:05:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YFlDm-0000Mg-Ft for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:04:58 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Injection-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4b6b6bdb5fb0f67aa87710b7e19fff07"; logging-data="7621"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19subYf588Y1yyUmMrss4vX7LQSk0DNVLA=" User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QLYuUOuw7z1ILg5LqpgpNn0xXg4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210004 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:03:22 -0500 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:102285 Archived-At: 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. -- Dieter Britz