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I can't figure out how to fix this one - NOT for lack of trying, |
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however. |
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I'm slowly trying to become more terminal-friendly and less |
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GUI-dependent. I also keep hearing how Emacs is so cool and powerful |
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and useful and blah. So I decided to try and learn it and see for |
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myself. |
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Installed it on my Kubuntu desktop and it worked fine. On my Gentoo |
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laptop... a whole other story. |
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I have app-editors/emacs v21.4-r4 installed. I don't have xemacs or |
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xemacs-base installed. This is probably applicable, so that's why I'm |
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including it. |
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When I use emacs I see the menus and all things X11, however, the editor |
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shows nothing but those annoying blocks that signify some kind of |
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problem with the font. I tried changing the fontset and stuff, but |
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only succeeded in crashing X twice and then making the boxes smaller or |
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larger and then crashing X. |
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I looked though Portage and by a total miracle found media-fonts/ (was |
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using Kuroo, which organizes things like media/fonts, so I didn't look |
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in media/ for fonts, so I almost missed it). I installed a few fonts |
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that I thought might rectify the situation, however, they didn't. |
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What should I do to fix Emacs? I hear it's a very powerful and useful |
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editor, and I would like to learn to use it (vi and/or its many |
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variants is next on my list, so no emacs vs. vi wars please) so any |
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assistance would be very helpful. |
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Thanks for your time! |
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