Re: [Mac-emacs-users] two small problems

[Enrico F. <fra...@cs...>]

On May 23, Uwe Hoffmann writes:
> - I cannot figure out how to tell the gui version (Emacs.app) that
>   my default shell is tcsh. My environment variables SHELL and
>   ESHELL are defined and point to tcsh. the non-gui version started
>   from a shell (emacs -nw) gets it and uses tcsh when I do M-x shell
>   or M-x compile etc.

I use the following:

(setq shell-file-name "tcsh")
(setq sh-shell-file "/bin/tcsh")
(setq tex-shell-file-name "tcsh")
(setq TeX-shell "/bin/tcsh")

> - I have weird character drawing problems in a shell inside an emacs
>   buffer in the gui version. I type a command like ls and hit enter
>   and the two characters of ls turn into two blocks. I also get that
>   sometime when the emacs status bar refreshes from a command and I
>   get it when I do a page with buttons for options browsing or help
>   page with buttons for example. The characters are little rectangle
>   blocks the size of a character but not the characters
>   themselves. Is it something to do with ncurses ? Did I make a
>   mistake when I built ?

You probably are using a font without italics/bold.

cheers
-- e.

Enrico Franconi                     - fra...@cs...
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