how to read external info file in emacs

au9ustine — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:40:45 +0000

Open your emacs
C-u C-h i, then input the path of the info file to be read

Emacs Font Settings using xresources to enable display Chinese character

au9ustine — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:12:00 +0000

Preliminaries:

Ubuntu Maverick or higher (Maybe it works on lower version, but I haven’t tried yet.)
emacs 23
Some fonts such as DejaVu Sans Mono, WenQuanYi Micro Hei, etc.

Solution:

After you installed Ubuntu, you’ll create/find a file called .Xresources. Edit it, append what as below:
```
Xft.antialias: 1
Xft.hinting: 1
Xft.hintstyle: hintfull
```

Similarly, you’ll create/find the file .emacs. Edit it like this:

(set-default-font "DejaVu Sans Mono-12")
(set-fontset-font (frame-parameter nil 'font)
              'han '("WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono" . "unicode-bmp")

Then type xrdb ~/.Xresources
You’ll make it if you’re lucky enough

emacs23 setup error in ubuntu maverick

au9ustine — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:21:00 +0000

I suffered a lot about these problems below:

au9ustine@ubuntu:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ sudo apt-get install emacs23
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 196 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/19.0kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `emacs23-el' missing, assuming 
package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `emacs23-common' missing, assuming 
package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `emacsen-common' missing, assuming 
package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `emacs23-bin-common' missing, 
assuming 
package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database ... 126908 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace emacsen-common 1.4.19ubuntu1 
(using .../emacsen-common_1.4.19ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement emacsen-common ...
Setting up emacs23 (23.1+1-4ubuntu7) ...
emacs-install emacs23
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs23
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs23
cp: cannot stat `/etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el': No such file 
or directory
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common 
emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28,  line 1.
dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
 emacs depends on emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; however:
  Package emacs23 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs23-lucid is not installed.
  Package emacs23-nox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing emacs (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.19ubuntu1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup 
error from a previous failure.
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs23
 emacs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The reason why I’m trapped here is unknown. I think it’s too complicated to have a brief scheme of the dpkg package manager. But thanks to goodness of Google, I find a way to solve it. Maybe it’s just the tip of the iceberg of superficial comprehension of the enormous horrible package management.

Drum……………Bang!

Here is the solution:

Clear what the prefix is “emacs” in /etc/, /usr/lib, and /var/lib/dpkg/info
Type sudo apt-get install --reinstall --purge emacsen-common
Wait…
If you prayed enough, you’ll be successful. Congratulations! Else, eh, I’ve no idea about that…Maybe you didn’t pray reverently enough.

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how to read external info file in emacs

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