Peter Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 11 May 2005 22:53:44 +0200: > Hello,
> I decided to use Gnus in a Linux text console. Excellent choice! How about the rest of Emacs? (I use ISO-8859-1 on a Linux 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!) Anti-aliasing - that's that thing where all the characters are made to look blurred, isn't it? YUCK! It's always amazed me that people with GUIs have such trouble with fonts when a simple 8x16 pixel grid on a text console gives such good results. > 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 don't have LC_CTYPE, but when I execute the (set-keybo... thingy, I have no trouble with C-g. But then, I don't use filterm (whatever it is). > (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) When you type C-g, what gets through to Emacs? (Do C-h l `view-lossage'). Does _anything_ get through to Emacs? Does C-g work if you leave `filterm' out? > 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. C-g is absolutely necessary. You don't need any excuses for needing it. [ .... ] > 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! Where did you do the remapping? In your keyboard driver (e.g. /etc/default.keytab) or somewhere within Emacs. > 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? What does filterm do with C-g? > many thanks > Peter -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs