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Re: xemacs won't save font type or size?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Wed Nov 13 13:04:18 1996

From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 12:01:30 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <m0vNjRe-001G0rC@iceonline.com> from "Borg" at Nov 13, 96 09:49:46 am
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Borg wrote:
> 
> RHS Linux User wrote:
> ........
> > The "Save Options" from the Options menu never works for me. Should it?
> > Anyway, have you tried your .Xdefaults or .../app-defaults/Emacs file?
> 
> It never worked for me. As soon as I click "Save Options",
> it says "writing [some .emacs or .xemacs -- don't remember]"
> but when I exit Xemacs and start it again, fonts are back to
> default. It happened with every version and RPM of xemacs I used
> since March 1995. I also asked for advice on this list but
> all I got were replies of type "I don't know, it works for me".
> (look through June archive maybe?)
> This is weird since that "Save Options" menu doesn't save
> anything on any of Linux systems I tried nor does it work on a BSD
> system.

Actually, I think this has happened to me before...

when I had done,

ln -s /usr/bin/xemacs /usr/bin/emacs

and ran xemacs with 'emacs'... I don't suppose you've done this?
-- 
					-Otto


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