I have searched the wanderlust docs for all the keywords I could think of, to no avail.
When I start wanderlust, there is a very ugly splash screen while the program initializes. Can I disable that somehow? Emacs hangs for about a second after that splash screen has gone anyway, so I would prefer it to hang for two seconds instead and not show the splash.
I don't know much about this library, but IIUC you're looking for this:
M-x customize-option RET wl-demo RET
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I find Emacs always blinks when it startup, My operation system is MacOS 10.14, I take a screenshot to show what I say, and slow the playback to 5%, then I find there is a screen draw first, but it's white fill color, after that it redraws as the config in .emacs file.
Could anybody tell me what's the mechanism of this and how to remove it?
screenshot of emacs startup
UPDATE: You can set most of these in early-init.el with Emacs 27+. That code gets executed before the GUI comes up.
Some Emacs config can happen before init.el is loaded, for instance X resources and command line options. So you can start Emacs like
emacs -bg black
or edit your ~/.Xresources:
Emacs.Background: black
and update the xrdb:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
If you go the X resources route, make sure something updates xrdb at start up/log in.
You can use named colors like in list-colors-display or a hex color like #000000.
I've recently downloaded emacs 24.2 for windows (i'm running vista 64bits) as my first attempt at emacs. When i start it up the characters in the splash screen as well as the tooltips for the menu items are all weird.
My guess is that the character (encodings?) is somehow messed up.
Here's a screenshot of my splash screen
Thanks for trying to help me out, i appreciate it.
summary:
- my splash screen shows weird characters
- so do the tooltips for my buttons
- i downloaded emacs 24.2 for windows from here
- Can you help me get it showing english language?
To find what the problem font is, put the cursor on one of the gibberish characters in the splash screen, and press C-u C-x =. If you can't read the buffer that comes up, then save it with C-x C-w, and view the file in some other editor.
For me, the following font is used, and it displays OK:
uniscribe:-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-15-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 (#x3A)
I will answer everybody in this comment (not sure if it's the proper etiquette of stackoverflow).
I've managed to fix the problem manually.
Emacs was using this font for me:
uniscribe:-outline-Helvetica-normal-normal-normal-mono-13-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 (#x73) and face: variable-pitchI edited the font family of the face from Sans-serif to Arial which fixed the problem.
Thanks to #wvxwv and #JSON for helping me with the key shortcuts and advice.
Thanks to #Chris Barret for helping me out.
And thanks to #itlodge for suggeting unicad
I suggest you use unicad.
It can solve the coding system problem automatically.
I realized that it has been asked with some weird titles in Stackoverflow. I can not delete this post cause it already has an answer. if you are interested see following:
Can I change the emacs fancy-startup-text?
How to load file into buffer and switch to buffer on start up in Emacs
Original Question:
I understand that it is possible to remove the Emacs splash screen! (" Unable to hide welcome screen in Emacs "). How can I change this welcome screen with my own welcome screen?
I believe you can use initial-buffer-choice, as documented here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Startup-Summary.html
User Option: initial-buffer-choice
If non-nil, this variable is a string that specifies a file or directory for Emacs to display after starting up, instead of the startup screen.
I've used emacs for some time, the most inconvenience of emacs for me is that it doesn't scroll smoothly when I'am reading the source code by the mouse's scroll button, though some configuration do thing similarly, it still can't make emacs scroll as vim,browsers,etc. How can I make it, should I hack the source code of emacs, if someone did that, please let me know, it has confused me for such a long time.
Have you tried this: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmoothScrolling
I have recently started using doc-view in Emacs, but I am having quite a few problems with it. The main one is that I can't scroll down on pages. I can see the next or previous page using "n" or "p", but the commands to scroll up and down a page, which are supposedly SPACE and DEL, do not work. Well, to be fair, DEL works, but it goes to the previous page rather than scroll up to the bottom of the previous page. The result is that I can only see the top of the pdf pages, but not the bottom parts.
I tried changing the view to continuous, but that doesn't work either. This is what I tried changing:
I did check the customisations for doc-view, but the variables (or options, or whatever they are called) did not appear to me to be the ones which would solve my problem.
More information: I did manage to make SPACE and DEL work at some point, but I don't remember what I did, and I can't get it to work again. I am using Aquamacs.
Any ideas?
By the way, another problem I have is that doc-view causes Aquamacs to sort of crash, meaning it freezes everything, keeps "thinking", and I have to force quit Aquamacs to get it to work again. While this is not my main question, if anyone can tell me anything about this I would also appreciate.
Thanks!
EDIT: I tried what the answer below suggested, it didn't work, kept trying other things/commands, and then C-n and SPACE started working! I quit Aquamacs, started it again, opened a pdf document, and it is back to not working. Can someone please explain what is happening? How can I make this reliable?
(setq doc-view-continuous t)
This lets you scroll the whole document with mouse wheel(not just the current page).
To commands to scroll down are bind to:
C-n, down
not SPC
UPDATE:
SPC is rebound in docview mode. Can't reproduce you issue using GNU Emacs/Linux, can you invoke:
M-x doc-view-scroll-down-or-previous-page