3 Customisation and Options

This is part 3 of the SXEmacs Frequently Asked Questions list. This section is devoted to Customisation and screen settings.

Customisation---Emacs Lisp and init.el/.emacs:

• Q3.0.1: What version of Emacs am I running?
• Q3.0.2: How do I evaluate Elisp expressions?
• Q3.0.3: (setq tab-width 6) behaves oddly.
• Q3.0.4: How can I add directories to the load-path?
• Q3.0.5: How to check if a lisp function is defined?
• Q3.0.6: Can I force the output of (face-list) to a buffer?
• Q3.0.7: Font selections don't get saved after Save Options.
• Q3.0.8: How do I make a single minibuffer frame?
• Q3.0.9: What is Customize?

X Window System & Resources:

• Q3.1.1: Where is a list of X resources?
• Q3.1.2: How can I detect a color display?
• Q3.1.3: [This question intentionally left blank]
• Q3.1.4: [This question intentionally left blank]
• Q3.1.5: How can I get the icon to just say ‘SXEmacs’?
• Q3.1.6: How can I have the window title area display the full path?
• Q3.1.7: ‘sxemacs -name junk’ doesn't work?
• Q3.1.8: ‘-iconic’ doesn't work.

Textual Fonts & Colors:

• Q3.2.1: How can I set color options from init.el?
• Q3.2.2: How do I set the text, menu and modeline fonts?
• Q3.2.3: How can I set the colors when highlighting a region?
• Q3.2.4: How can I limit color map usage?
• Q3.2.5: My tty supports color, but SXEmacs doesn't use them.
• Q3.2.6: Can I have pixmap backgrounds in SXEmacs?
• Q3.2.7: How do I display non-ASCII characters?

The Modeline:

• Q3.3.1: How can I make the modeline go away?
• Q3.3.2: How do you have SXEmacs display the line number in the modeline?
• Q3.3.3: How do I get SXEmacs to put the time of day on the modeline?
• Q3.3.4: How do I turn off current chapter from AUC TeX modeline?
• Q3.3.5: How can one change the modeline color based on the mode used?

Multiple Device Support:

• Q3.4.1: How do I open a frame on another screen of my multi-headed display?
• Q3.4.2: Can I really connect to a running SXEmacs after calling up over a modem? How?

The Keyboard:

• Q3.5.1: How can I bind complex functions (or macros) to keys?
• Q3.5.2: How can I stop down-arrow from adding empty lines to the bottom of my buffers?
• Q3.5.3: How do I bind C-. and C-; to scroll one line up and down?
• Q3.5.4: Globally binding Delete?
• Q3.5.5: Scrolling one line at a time.
• Q3.5.6: How to map Help key alone on Sun type4 keyboard?
• Q3.5.7: How can you type in special characters in SXEmacs?
• Q3.5.8: [This question intentionally left blank]
• Q3.5.9: How do I make the Delete key delete forward?
• Q3.5.10: Can I turn on sticky modifier keys?
• Q3.5.11: How do I map the arrow keys?

The Cursor:

• Q3.6.1: Is there a way to make the bar cursor thicker?
• Q3.6.2: Is there a way to get back the old block cursor where the cursor covers the character in front of the point?
• Q3.6.3: Can I make the cursor blink?

The Mouse and Highlighting:

• Q3.7.1: How can I turn off Mouse pasting?
• Q3.7.2: How do I set control/meta/etc modifiers on mouse buttons?
• Q3.7.3: Clicking the left button does not do anything in buffer list.
• Q3.7.4: How can I get a list of buffers when I hit mouse button 3?
• Q3.7.5: Why does cut-and-paste not work between SXEmacs and a cmdtool?
• Q3.7.6: How I can set SXEmacs up so that it pastes where the text cursor is?
• Q3.7.7: How do I select a rectangular region?
• Q3.7.8: Why does M-w take so long?

The Menubar and Toolbar:

• Q3.8.1: How do I get rid of the menu (or menubar)?
• Q3.8.2: Can I customise the basic menubar?
• Q3.8.3: How do I control how many buffers are listed in the menu Buffers list?
• Q3.8.4: Resources like Emacs*menubar*font are not working?
• Q3.8.5: How can I bind a key to a function to toggle the toolbar?

Scrollbars:

• Q3.9.1: How can I disable the scrollbar?
• Q3.9.2: How can one use resources to change scrollbar colors?
• Q3.9.3: Moving the scrollbar can move the point; can I disable this?
• Q3.9.4: How can I turn off automatic horizontal scrolling in specific modes?

Text Selections:

• Q3.10.1: How can I turn off or change highlighted selections?
• Q3.10.2: How do I get that typing on an active region removes it?
• Q3.10.3: Can I turn off the highlight during isearch?
• Q3.10.4: How do I turn off highlighting after C-x C-p (mark-page)?
• Q3.10.5: The region disappears when I hit the end of buffer while scrolling.
• Q3.10.6: Why is killing so slow?