From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Migrating from emacs 20 to 21 Date: 20 Feb 2003 10:53:53 +0100 Organization: T-Online 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 1045735026 16788 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 09:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:57:06 +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 18lnRv-0004Mb-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:57:03 +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 18lnQg-0000tG-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 04:55:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1045734834 02 22438 mqNiEmeVTxAeL4 030220 09:53:54 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110419 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:6921 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6921 Daryl Sayers writes: > I have built up the courage to move from emacs 20.7 to > Emacs 21.2.2 (i386--freebsd, X tookit, Xaw3d scroll bars) > > As I am a very poor at lisp I have struck some trouble. Here are a few > problems: > > . The new left and right wrap margins (?) that display the line wrap char > etc are black on my screen. I have looked everywhere to try and change > this to a different color. I can't find an Xresource or a piece of lisp > code to do this. > > . While we are at it, I tried to change the color of the scroll bars. I > read about the new scroll-bar faces but could not make it work. > > . When starting I use 'emacs -geometry 80x48', I see the window draw and then > it resizes to a smaller size before completion. I found the problem is when > I turn off 'tool-bar-mode' It seems the window dimensions take into account > the tool-bar and then it readjusts. Any way of getting round this. New features are documented and described with C-h N (I believe). Turn off the toolbar in your X resources, then you don't get resizing. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum