technical support

[cellio]

Dear LazyWeb,

On Mac OS 10.4, how do I get the built-in emacs (the one you get if you type "emacs" from a shell) to display a cursor? (And how do I access the menus it offers -- File, Edit, etc -- where the answer to the first question could conceivably be found?)

Alternatively, how do I get Gnu emacs (22.0.50.1, in case it's relevant) to admit to knowledge of more than one font? I know how to specify a different default font via config file, but that only works if you can correctly name it. "Set font" on the Options menu is unresponsive; it'll let me select different sizes of Courier, but it doesn't change the size. (I just noticed that it reports "font not found", even though it generated the list of choices. Hmm. Path problem?)

I can work around all of this with zoom (which the Mac does well), but there ought to be a way to actually configure one or the other of these emacses.

Comments

[alfiechat.livejournal.com]

let me show this to dave and see if he knows anything that can help you.

[hlinspjalda.livejournal.com]

Mr. Fixer says he'll talk to you by phone and help you through it if you'll send me your cell number and a good time to talk.

He says he thinks you might be used to the graphical interface of emacs; is that the case?

[laid.livejournal.com]

Just use vi.


*ducks*
:q!