I have read through tons of questions about setting up the fonts in emacs but I have not been able to get it to work so far. Is there a step by step guide for changing the emacs default font to this (including font installation directions?) This is over ssh so I can't use a solution that involves the gui version of emacs.
This is over ssh so I can't use a solution that involves the gui version of emacs.
Since you are connecting over SSH and using the terminal version of Emacs, you'll have to set up Inconsolata on your local machine, and configure your terminal or SSH client to use that font.
Emacs in the terminal has no concept of fonts; it simply uses whatever fonts the containing terminal uses.
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I currently use MINGW64 (Git Bash) as my terminal on my Windows 10 machine. It works great, I like it, but it only has Vim installed as an editor and I prefer Emacs. I'm unfortunately having a really awful time getting it to work in my terminal.
What's weirder still is that I have Emacs working in Cygwin64; but I don't like using that as my terminal. The most logical fix is simply that it Emacs to my Path ENV, however that doesn't seem to help (perhaps I'm doing that wrong?). I just get bash: emacs: command not found. I found a command to install it, using Pacman, however the Pacman command cannot be found either (which is weird because I thought that was installed by default with MINGW64.
Would love any and all help on this.
A couple of options:
Use Cygwin and the Cygwin emacs. Consider your Cygwin environment completely separate from Windows, so set your PATH from within the .bashrc, not within Windows. Launch emacs from the bash command-line.
Use the Emacs Windows binary distribution, but point to the utilities within Cygwin (there's an emacs package to help with this). Again, launch from the bash command line to inherit the bash environment within emacs.
Use the Windows Subsystem for Linux, with a Linux installation, and stick with emacs from there. You get the best of the Linux world, and access to the Windows directories and files as well.
My goto choice for MANY years was the Emacs Windows binary in conjunction with Cygwin. Once I started using the WSL, however, it just worked a lot better, in a clean Linux environment, and I could get terminal and GUI emacs (and other apps) running using the VcXsrv X Server. WSL has a version that directly supports X Windows, but I don't care for the windowing environment it uses, so I stick with VcXsrv.
I have an AIX6.1 system, with emacs installed from the rpm package emacs-24.5-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm downloaded from IBM.
However, this only installs emacsclient on the machine, and I could not figure how to start the server (daemon) on this machine, since only emacsclient is available:
rpm -ql emacs-24.5-1
...
/usr/bin/emacsclient
/usr/bin/etags
/usr/bin/gctags
/usr/lib/emacs
So any idea on how to use emacs on AIX?
The page you have linked to lists the following:
emacs-nox-24.5 The Emacs text editor without support for the X Window System.
emacs-X11-24.5 The Emacs text editor for the X Window System.
emacs-24.5 The libraries needed to run the GNU Emacs text editor.
I believe you will need to install emacs-24.5 and at least one of the other two.
i.e. the first two packages provide variants of the main Emacs executable, and the third provides everything else.
What do I have to write in my .emacs file in order to associate the <S-dead-grave> command with inserting the character ` (backtick).
I run GNU Emacs 23.1.1 on Unix.
Background: I run Unix via a shell that runs in Java (Oracle SGD) on a Windows terminal server. I do not have admin access on either system. My keyboard is set to Norwegian. There is apparently some bug in Java causing this to act weird with "dead" characters (like ` is on the Norwegian keyboard) and I have not succeeded in getting my administrator to fix this.
When I click ` followed by a space (as is the way to insert that character with my keyboard layout) in Emacs, I get the error message <S-dead-grave> is undefined. Hence, I believe that if I could define this, I would be able to work around this error.
Within this setup, I am also happy with alternative workarounds.
It's not completely clear to me whether you run Emacs in GUI mode or in text mode (in a terminal emulator), but based on your description of Emacs's behavior I guess it runs in GUI mode (maybe via some X server on your Windows machine?).
It's strange that you'd get S-dead-grave events, so it might be a bug in your GUI environment (your X server's config?).
But in any case
(global-set-key [S-dead-grave] "`")
might let you work around the problem.
I had the same problem and this bug report discussion reports a solution :
XMODIFIERS= emacs
I did put it into my .bashrc after testing that it works (with XMODIFIERS= emacs && emacs)
This is apparently not needed with emacs 24.4, but I use emacs 24.3.1 and still need it.
If XMODIFIERS= emacs works for you (don't forget space after equal sign), check ~/.xinputrc and /etc/X11/xinit/xinputrc or run im-config and select none. For more info consult debian reference chapter I18N and L10N
My Emacs editor can't work with ibus chinese input method, ibus shows "No input window" when cursor is on Emacs.
I run Emacs with alias like LC_CTYPE="zh_CN.UTF-8" emacs, It actually works before, but I have no idea why it doesn't work now, maybe some system update I think.
About my system: Gentoo Linux with Gnome3, I installed Emacs23 and Emacs24, and both of them can't work with ibus now.
PS: Ibus works on other programs, Emacs can display chinese characters well.
It seems the problem only happen on Gentoo. Because system update clear up some fonts. The solution is to install the missing fonts:
emerge media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi x11-apps/bdftopcf media-fonts/font-alias media-fonts/font-util
Then after logout and re-login, I can use input method again.
I solve this problem via installing ibus.el and this seems like emacs GTK UI's problem.
make sure that ibus is configured correctly by opening the default text editor for your distribution (Mousepad, Leafpad...?), typing control-space and seeing if you can enter Chinese. If you cant you may have to install a Chinese input method or add an input method in the ibus settings.
next make sure you have the emacs, ibus mode installed. If you are using a Debian based distribution, the package you want to install will be listed as 'ibus-el'.
After installing ibus-el usually control-space will activate and allow you to cycle through your input methods; however, on some of my machines I have to help emacs to get ibus mode started by typing M-x ibus-mode.
I can't figure out why this isn't easy to find on Google, but after searching for about 10 minutes, I just decided to give up and post here.
The subject basically says it all. I'm running MinTTY as a cygwin terminal on a Windows XP desktop. All I want to do is have emacs open up in a new window rather than inside my terminal. What would be best is a switch for this, so I could toggle it depending on my current needs. This seems like something that would be useful to a lot of people, and I know I've done it before on Linux boxes, so I imagine there must be a way to do this in cygwin too. Anyone know how?
Just start a new mintty, telling it to invoke emacs:
mintty emacs
There are a couple of scenarios that you might clarify:
Running the cygwin version of emacs within a standard windows environment will call emacs within the current shell
If the Cygwin X-Windows server (i.e., “XWin Server”) has been started and the DISPLAY environment variable has been set in the mintty terminal (e.g., export DISPLAY=":0"), calling emacs will start it in its own window.
running the Windows version of emacs within the cygwin terminal should launch the new frame you are seeking.
If you want a separate emacs 'window', you would be best served by installing the Windows native version of emacs (I use the gnu emacs precompiled binaries), and calling it from the cygwin terminal.