Re: [Sheflug] Emacs - formatting and dating files.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
>     Barrie> What is the situation between GNU Emacs and XEmacs then? I
>     Barrie> thought they were just part of the same group...*shows his
>     Barrie> ignorance*
> 
> http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html

 Oo! Nice article, BTW Stephen.

>     Barrie> My main concern at the moment is getting the tcl mode set
>     Barrie> to my liking and having a white-on-black XEmacs
>     Barrie> window. I'm very fussy about the colours of things -
>     Barrie> especially when I'm working on code.
> 
> Options | Edit Faces

 What is the M-x command for setting a black background, white text? I
can't seem to find it...

I've got bigger text, which I want...

> And don't hit the "save" button until you're (a) pretty happy and (b)
> pretty sure there's nothing really to screw you in there.

>     Barrie> Is there a way to port across my .emacs file to (I guess)
>     Barrie> a workable .xemacs file - save all this pissing about with
>     Barrie> Emacs
> 
> It _should_ work out of the box.  `xemacs -debug-init' from the
> command line will give you more information about the error.

It doesn't :-( *Scream*

Arg. I'm gonna continue using GNU Emacs for the moment. 
XEmacs looks nice, but until I figure it out, it's just gonna get in the
way.

Baz.
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