Re: Strange font / frame size problem makes emacs unusable.

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.04.2010 um 11:58 schrieb Gaute Amundsen:

> > > xlsfonts | grep misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--
> >
> > *Don't* use the '--' when grep'ing for a font name! And it's so much
> > easier to
> >
> >         xlsfonts -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*'
>
> Don't seem to make much of a difference to he results.
> Seems grep is smart enough to know it's part of the string..

The final "--" does not hurt grep, xlsfonts does not necessarily  
output that abbreviation.

> > > > Since Ubuntu is Debian based
> > > > there are certainly some system init files. They're either missing
> > > > (because you did not install the packages) or they're for a  
> > > > different
> > > > version of GNU Emacs? Find and check them!
> > >
> > > None that I can spot.
> > > Can you suggest a string to grep /etc/ for?
> >
> > No, I am not using a Debian based Linux. Other suggestions:  
> > locate .el
> > | egrep '^/etc',
>
> Only hits are /etc/emacs/site-start* and
> /etc/emacs23/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
>
> piping into "xargs -n 1 grep -i font" gives no hits.

Of course! An ELC file is a compiled Emacs Lisp/ELisp or EL file. Get  
the uncompiled version! In a GPL'ed OS it has to exist. Could be /etc/ 
emacs23/site-start.d has the EL files as well... (GNU Emacs prefers to  
load the byte-compiled variants: they're faster to load.)

> > launch GNU Emacs as
> >
> >         emacs [...] -eval '(defadvice load (before debug-log activate)
> > (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Lade jetzt: %s" (ad-get-arg 0)))'
>
> Should the message show up in *Messages* ? Nothing there.

Yes. You should see a few lines..., but, yes, some Emacsen (I tried  
"Carbon Emacs" in Mac OS X) hide loading these "init" files.

> Tried emacs --debug-init as well with no obvious sign of anything
> happening.

Starts "debugging" (with a 'Backtrace* buffer) *after* an error has  
happened.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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