fad@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
Robert-- I'm new to x, and I'm using a script called x that John Rose sent me. My copy fires up gmacs using: 'gmacs -font 9x15 -b 3 -w =80x59-4+2 -i' This makes the right window, with the right font, but it starts up with "file not found" (when I run it myself in the xterm window) or with a file called "=80x59-4+2" (when run by the script). What's wrong? Is it gmacs options brain-damage? --Franklin
rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) (01/07/88)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 11:51:43 EST From: fad@Think.COM Robert-- I'm new to x, and I'm using a script called x that John Rose sent me. My copy fires up gmacs using: 'gmacs -font 9x15 -b 3 -w =80x59-4+2 -i' This makes the right window, with the right font, but it starts up with "file not found" (when I run it myself in the xterm window) or with a file called "=80x59-4+2" (when run by the script). It's true that when not running under X emacs doesn't know about the X options, but it sounds like you are running under X. I tried it myself with my .emacs file and also without a .emacs file (-q) without any trouble on dagda. It's presumably something in your .emacs file, although I couldn't find anything suspicious. harvard >>>>>> | bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com> ihnp4 >>>>>>>> .
mjab@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
The thing wrong with your file is the -font flag which expects to be followed by a file name for a font file. e.g. 'gmacs -i -w =80x50-0+0 -font /usr/lib/sax/kaplcour.r.14' -Michael PS. As John told you, I was once a novice X user. Now I am a former X user instead (still novice, though). It can do a lot of stuff, but I found it very hard to get used to the way every twitch of your hand makes it run off and do 5 things you didn't want. The only reason I used it in the first place is because I wanted to use APL font and it didn't work in Suntools. Now I have an APLtool from Morgan Stanley and I use suntools instead of X and uwm. Nevertheless, you are welcome to my .uwmrx and .Xdefaults files.
fad@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 14:03:46 EST From: mjab@Think.COM The thing wrong with your file is the -font flag which expects to be followed by a file name for a font file. e.g. 'gmacs -i -w =80x50-0+0 -font /usr/lib/sax/kaplcour.r.14' -Michael PS. As John told you, I was once a novice X user. Now I am a former X user instead (still novice, though). It can do a lot of stuff, but I found it very hard to get used to the way every twitch of your hand makes it run off and do 5 things you didn't want. The only reason I used it in the first place is because I wanted to use APL font and it didn't work in Suntools. Now I have an APLtool from Morgan Stanley and I use suntools instead of X and uwm. Nevertheless, you are welcome to my .uwmrx and .Xdefaults files.
fad@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
Sorry about sending the previous message! (^X^X is sometimes too close to ^C^C...) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 14:03:46 EST From: mjab@Think.COM The thing wrong with your file is the -font flag which expects to be followed by a file name for a font file. e.g. 'gmacs -i -w =80x50-0+0 -font /usr/lib/sax/kaplcour.r.14' -Michael Nope. 'man gmacs' says that it looks in /usr/new/lib/X/font, and to leave off the .onx extension. It doesn't accept a pathname such as above. Still a mystery, folks... --Franklin
rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) (01/07/88)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 14:34:50 EST
From: fad@Think.COM
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 14:03:46 EST
From: mjab@Think.COM
The thing wrong with your file is the -font flag which expects to
be followed by a file name for a font file. e.g.
'gmacs -i -w =80x50-0+0 -font /usr/lib/sax/kaplcour.r.14'
Nope. 'man gmacs' says that it looks in /usr/new/lib/X/font, and to
leave off the .onx extension. It doesn't accept a pathname such as
above. Still a mystery, folks...
Nope. Emacs accepts either a font name from /usr/new/lib/X/font or
the absolute pathname of a font (with any extension). It accepts
anything that XOpenFont does -- I use /u9/rlk/fonts/5x7.onx (very
small) with no problems.
I took the exact command line in question and typed it in and didn't
have the problem. gmacs -q with the rest of the command line also
didn't give me a problem. Which machine did this happen on?
harvard >>>>>> |
bloom-beacon > |think!rlk Robert Krawitz <rlk@think.com>
ihnp4 >>>>>>>> .shn@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
Nope. 'man gmacs' says that it looks in /usr/new/lib/X/font, and to leave off the .onx extension. It doesn't accept a pathname such as above. Still a mystery, folks... --Franklin I think you will find that X on a Sun (whether or not you are running X under Suntools) will support both X font and the Sun font files. The other way to adjust the fonts used by gmacs under X is to put in a line like this in your .Xdefaults file .... emacs.bodyfont: /usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts/screen.r.14 This is a reference to a Sun font but I am sure you could reference an X font file as well. I hope this helps Sam N
fad@THINK.COM (01/07/88)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 88 14:52:05 EST
From: shn@Think.COM
Nope. 'man gmacs' says that it looks in /usr/new/lib/X/font, and to
leave off the .onx extension. It doesn't accept a pathname such as
above. Still a mystery, folks...
--Franklin
I think you will find that X on a Sun (whether or not you are running
X under Suntools) will support both X font and the Sun font files. The
other way to adjust the fonts used by gmacs under X is to put in a line like
this in your .Xdefaults file ....
emacs.bodyfont: /usr/lib/fonts/fixedwidthfonts/screen.r.14
This is a reference to a Sun font but I am sure you could reference an X
font file as well.
I hope this helps
Sam N
Aha! I didn't have .Xdefaults. That should help. Thanks, folks!
--Franklin