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This is part 3 of the SXEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list. This section is devoted to Customisation and screen settings.
Customisation—Emacs Lisp and init.el/.emacs: | ||
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| • Q3.0.1: | What version of Emacs am I running? | |
| • Q3.0.2: | How do I evaluate Elisp expressions? | |
| • Q3.0.3: | (setq tab-width 6) behaves oddly.
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| • Q3.0.4: | How can I add directories to the load-path?
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| • Q3.0.5: | How to check if a lisp function is defined? | |
| • Q3.0.6: | Can I force the output of (face-list) to a buffer?
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| • Q3.0.7: | Font selections don’t get saved after Save Options.
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| • Q3.0.8: | How do I make a single minibuffer frame? | |
| • Q3.0.9: | What is Customize?
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X Window System & Resources: | ||
| • Q3.1.1: | Where is a list of X resources? | |
| • Q3.1.2: | How can I detect a color display? | |
| • Q3.1.3: | [This question intentionally left blank] | |
| • Q3.1.4: | [This question intentionally left blank] | |
| • Q3.1.5: | How can I get the icon to just say ‘SXEmacs’? | |
| • Q3.1.6: | How can I have the window title area display the full path? | |
| • Q3.1.7: | ‘sxemacs -name junk’ doesn’t work? | |
| • Q3.1.8: | ‘-iconic’ doesn’t work. | |
Textual Fonts & Colors: | ||
| • Q3.2.1: | How can I set color options from init.el? | |
| • Q3.2.2: | How do I set the text, menu and modeline fonts? | |
| • Q3.2.3: | How can I set the colors when highlighting a region? | |
| • Q3.2.4: | How can I limit color map usage? | |
| • Q3.2.5: | My tty supports color, but SXEmacs doesn’t use them. | |
| • Q3.2.6: | Can I have pixmap backgrounds in SXEmacs? | |
| • Q3.2.7: | How do I display non-ASCII characters? | |
The Modeline: | ||
| • Q3.3.1: | How can I make the modeline go away? | |
| • Q3.3.2: | How do you have SXEmacs display the line number in the modeline? | |
| • Q3.3.3: | How do I get SXEmacs to put the time of day on the modeline? | |
| • Q3.3.4: | How do I turn off current chapter from AUC TeX modeline? | |
| • Q3.3.5: | How can one change the modeline color based on the mode used? | |
Multiple Device Support: | ||
| • Q3.4.1: | How do I open a frame on another screen of my multi-headed display? | |
| • Q3.4.2: | Can I really connect to a running SXEmacs after calling up over a modem? How? | |
The Keyboard: | ||
| • Q3.5.1: | How can I bind complex functions (or macros) to keys? | |
| • Q3.5.2: | How can I stop down-arrow from adding empty lines to the bottom of my buffers? | |
| • Q3.5.3: | How do I bind C-. and C-; to scroll one line up and down? | |
| • Q3.5.4: | Globally binding Delete? | |
| • Q3.5.5: | Scrolling one line at a time. | |
| • Q3.5.6: | How to map Help key alone on Sun type4 keyboard? | |
| • Q3.5.7: | How can you type in special characters in SXEmacs? | |
| • Q3.5.8: | [This question intentionally left blank] | |
| • Q3.5.9: | How do I make the Delete key delete forward? | |
| • Q3.5.10: | Can I turn on sticky modifier keys? | |
| • Q3.5.11: | How do I map the arrow keys? | |
The Cursor: | ||
| • Q3.6.1: | Is there a way to make the bar cursor thicker? | |
| • Q3.6.2: | Is there a way to get back the old block cursor where the cursor covers the character in front of the point? | |
| • Q3.6.3: | Can I make the cursor blink? | |
The Mouse and Highlighting: | ||
| • Q3.7.1: | How can I turn off Mouse pasting? | |
| • Q3.7.2: | How do I set control/meta/etc modifiers on mouse buttons? | |
| • Q3.7.3: | Clicking the left button does not do anything in buffer list. | |
| • Q3.7.4: | How can I get a list of buffers when I hit mouse button 3? | |
| • Q3.7.5: | Why does cut-and-paste not work between SXEmacs and a cmdtool? | |
| • Q3.7.6: | How I can set SXEmacs up so that it pastes where the text cursor is? | |
| • Q3.7.7: | How do I select a rectangular region? | |
| • Q3.7.8: | Why does M-w take so long? | |
The Menubar and Toolbar: | ||
| • Q3.8.1: | How do I get rid of the menu (or menubar)? | |
| • Q3.8.2: | Can I customise the basic menubar? | |
| • Q3.8.3: | How do I control how many buffers are listed in the menu Buffers list?
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| • Q3.8.4: | Resources like Emacs*menubar*font are not working?
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| • Q3.8.5: | How can I bind a key to a function to toggle the toolbar? | |
Scrollbars: | ||
| • Q3.9.1: | How can I disable the scrollbar? | |
| • Q3.9.2: | How can one use resources to change scrollbar colors? | |
| • Q3.9.3: | Moving the scrollbar can move the point; can I disable this? | |
| • Q3.9.4: | How can I turn off automatic horizontal scrolling in specific modes? | |
Text Selections: | ||
| • Q3.10.1: | How can I turn off or change highlighted selections? | |
| • Q3.10.2: | How do I get that typing on an active region removes it? | |
| • Q3.10.3: | Can I turn off the highlight during isearch? | |
| • Q3.10.4: | How do I turn off highlighting after C-x C-p (mark-page)? | |
| • Q3.10.5: | The region disappears when I hit the end of buffer while scrolling. | |
| • Q3.10.6: | Why is killing so slow? | |
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