Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 08:35:58 AM +0800 jida...@jidanni.org wrote: "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r> But, worst of all, some key combinatio

Re: gnus 20110821 will CoRrUpT your .newsrc.eld, you have been XwarnedX burned

2011-08-22 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Use emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1 and you won't be able to start gnus, as > your .newsrc.eld got corrupted last session. > Here's what wdiff(1) and uni2ascii(1) say now gets plastered into our > .newsrc.eld files starting with emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1 > {+(if (gnus-l

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "KR" == Kenyon Ralph writes: KR> I use emacs under X to administer my Debian systems. I don't run it as KR> root though. I use emacs TRAMP to use sudo to edit files as root on KR> the local machine. On remote machines I do the same but in an ssh KR> session in xterm (I don't use mouse or men

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread Kenyon Ralph
On 2011-08-23T08:35:58+0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: > r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot > r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. > r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not w

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> The console mode has been a shock. There is no mouse at all. I cannot r> navigate the menus as usual, menu-bar-open is weird and unfriendly. r> But, worst of all, some key combinations do not work well. But that's the way it must be here on Debian, if you a

Re: emacs on a text console - please help me overcome the shock

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
> "r" == rdiezmail-emacs writes: r> Hi all: r> I'm a "normal" GUI computer user, I've used things like Delphi, r> Eclipse, gedit, Notepad++ and Visual Studio all my life. I've also r> been using emacs for some time under Ubuntu and under Windows. It r> took me a while to set it up with "stan

gnus 20110821 will CoRrUpT your .newsrc.eld, you have been XwarnedX burned

2011-08-22 Thread jidanni
Use emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1 and you won't be able to start gnus, as your .newsrc.eld got corrupted last session. Here's what wdiff(1) and uni2ascii(1) say now gets plastered into our .newsrc.eld files starting with emacs-snapshot 1:20110821-1 {+(if (gnus-lrm-string-p gnus-tmp-qualified-group)