Hello, I decided to use Gnus in a Linux text console.
The reasons are: - all the fonts for Emacs and/or XEmacs when under X are either too big or too small; there are just not enough intermediate font sizes, and my eyes are very sensitive - when running Emacs and/or XEmacs in "gnome-terminal" the fonts look way better and have many more intermediate steps (so font size is no longer an issue!), but my eyes start to hurt or I get a headache (thanks to anti-aliasing, I fear - though switching it off is no solution, because fonts look ugly then in Emacs AND in web browsers!) Now enough with that, let's get to my problem with Gnus (or Emacs, this is no Gnus specific issue!) in a Linux text console: I managed to get good utf support (for reading post in utf-8 AND for typing in all the characters (Umlaute, tilde etc.) I want) by using filterm and its dynafont filter. I launch Gnus like this: LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 exec filterm - dynafont emacs -nw --eval "(set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-9)" -f gnus-unplugged "$@" (I need the "exec", by the way, when using a bash script - otherwise, it doesn't work...) Everything appears to be all right (reading utf-8 messages, typing in Umlaute, euro sign etc.), but there is this one PROBLEM: control-g doesn't work any longer! (or in other words: keyboard-quit) This is very bad because I often need to abort a command. In many cases (like aborting a M-x... sequence) ESC-ESC-ESC is a good workaround. BUT: When loading articles for a very large group (thousands of articles, which will take a lot of time anyway) I can no longer abort that command, because control-g is not being recognized any more (and ESC-ESC-ESC doesn't work for interrupting a running command anyway). I tried to remap control-g to e.g. F6 (function key 6) or other keys I tried, but nothing works - it looks like control-g is something very special and that the code of Emacs doesn't allow for changing that! This means, running commands can no longer be interrupted/aborted when I use a utf-8 enabled Emacs/Gnus in a Linux text console. Does anyone have experience with this problem - or even better have a solution? many thanks Peter _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs