[ydl-gen] xemacs, emacs

John Dey jsdey at optonline.net
Wed Jan 17 12:41:42 MST 2007


On Jan 16, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:04:05 -0500
> John Dey <jsdey at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I evoke  xemacs and emacs from xterm,  I get the following
>> warnings:
>>
>> [robo9 at robo9 ~]$ xemacs
>> Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
>> Warning: Color name "Blue" is not defined
>> Warning: Color name "Red" is not defined
>> Warning: Color name "Maroon" is not defined
>> Warning: Color name "ForestGreen" is not defined
>> [robo9 at robo9 ~]$ emacs
>> Undefined color: "black"
>> [robo9 at robo9 ~]$
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea on how I might fix the configuration?  Any
>> help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>>
>> John
>>
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>
> Hi John, you may have an incomplete installation of both emacs and
> xemacs.  As superuser do this:
>
> # yum install "*xemacs*"
>
> Explanation:  Yum will collect the appropriate dependencies and
> whatever else is needed reporting to you what it finds.  Just type y
> for yes and the installation should be complete.  Do likewise for 
> emacs:
>
> # yum install "*emacs*"
>
> Good Luck... Derick.
>
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> Derick,

As you suggested I loaded ALL packages for emac and xemacs.  
Unfortunately, I still get error warnings.  I can run emacs in Xterm 
with the nw option.  Xemacs runs but with the warnings as mentioned.  
Thanks for your suggestions.

John



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