# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 983649691 0 # Node ID 3f0def4a42104f7b62ab8009812891baa0352eb2 # Parent 8a046a8e91dc460056dfc5e1f2abb5a338b015c8 Minor cleanups. Rename `Motif Resources' node to `LessTif Resources'. diff -r 8a046a8e91dc -r 3f0def4a4210 man/cmdargs.texi --- a/man/cmdargs.texi Sat Mar 03 19:52:08 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/cmdargs.texi Sat Mar 03 20:01:31 2001 +0000 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ * Icons X:: Choosing what sort of icon to use, under X. * Resources X:: Advanced use of classes and resources, under X. * Lucid Resources:: X resources for Lucid menus. -* Motif Resources:: X resources for Motif menus. +* LessTif Resources:: X resources for LessTif and Motif menus. @end menu @node Action Arguments @@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ This specifies the current time zone and possibly also daylight savings information. On MS-DOS, if @code{TZ} is not set in the environment when Emacs starts, Emacs defines a default value as -appropriate for the country code returned by DOS. On MS Windows, Emacs +appropriate for the country code returned by DOS. On MS-Windows, Emacs does not use @code{TZ} at all. @item USER The user's login name. See also @env{LOGNAME}. On MS-DOS, this @@ -463,9 +463,11 @@ reports. @item EMACSCOLORS -Used on MS-DOS systems to set screen colors early, so that the screen -won't momentarily flash the default colors when Emacs starts up. The -value of this variable should be the two-character encoding of the +On MS-DOS, this specifies the screen colors. It is useful to set them +this way, since otherwise Emacs would display the default colors +momentarily when it starts up. + +The value of this variable should be the two-character encoding of the foreground (the first character) and the background (the second character) colors of the default face. Each character should be the hexadecimal code for the desired color on a standard PC text-mode @@ -494,7 +496,7 @@ With Emacs, the main reason people change the default display is to let them log into another system, run Emacs on that system, but have the -window displayed at their local terminal. You might need to login +window displayed at their local terminal. You might need to log in to another system because the files you want to edit are there, or because the Emacs executable file you want to run is there. @@ -519,9 +521,9 @@ emacs --display=glasperle:0 & @end smallexample - You can inhibit the direct use of the GUI with the @samp{-nw} option. This -is also an initial option. It tells Emacs to display using ordinary -ASCII on its controlling terminal. + You can inhibit the direct use of the window system and GUI with the +@samp{-nw} option. It tells Emacs to display using ordinary ASCII on +its controlling terminal. This is also an initial option. Sometimes, security arrangements prevent a program on a remote system from displaying on your local system. In this case, trying to run Emacs @@ -670,7 +672,7 @@ @item -fg @var{color} @itemx --foreground-color=@var{color} Specify the foreground color. @var{color} should be a standard color -name or a numeric specification of the color's red, green, and blue +name, or a numeric specification of the color's red, green, and blue components as in @samp{#4682B4} or @samp{RGB:46/82/B4}. @item -bg @var{color} @itemx --background-color=@var{color} @@ -736,11 +738,10 @@ Since the mode line and the echo area occupy the last 2 lines of the frame, the height of the initial text window is 2 less than the height -specified in your geometry. In non-X-toolkit versions of Emacs, -the menu bar also takes one line of the specified number. The tool bar, -if present, is excluded from the height of the initial text window; -Emacs will enlarge the frame's height as needed to accomodate for the -tool bar. +specified in your geometry. In non-X-toolkit versions of Emacs, the +menu bar also takes one line of the specified number. But in the X +toolkit version, the menu bar is additional and does not count against +the specified height. The tool bar, if present, is also additional. You do not have to specify all of the fields in the geometry specification. @@ -782,11 +783,11 @@ @table @samp @item -ib @var{width} @itemx --internal-border=@var{width} -Specify @var{width} as the width of the internal border in pixels. +Specify @var{width} as the width of the internal border, in pixels. @item -bw @var{width} @itemx --border-width=@var{width} -Specify @var{width} as the width of the main border in pixels. +Specify @var{width} as the width of the main border, in pixels. @end table When you specify the size of the frame, that does not count the @@ -847,9 +848,9 @@ rectangle containing the frame's title. The @samp{-iconic} option tells Emacs to begin running as an icon, -rather than opening a frame right away. In this situation, the icon -window provides only an indication that Emacs has started; the usual text -frame doesn't appear until you deiconify it. +rather than showing a frame right away. In this situation, the icon +is the only indication that Emacs has started; the text frame doesn't +appear until you deiconify it. @node Resources X @appendixsec X Resources @@ -989,7 +990,7 @@ @item @code{lineSpacing} (class LineSpacing) @cindex line spacing @cindex leading -Additional space (@dfn{leading}) between lines in pixels. +Additional space (@dfn{leading}) between lines, in pixels. @item @code{menuBar} (class @code{MenuBar}) Give frames menu bars if @samp{on}; don't have menu bars if @samp{off}. @@ -1027,7 +1028,7 @@ @item @code{selectionFont} (class @code{Font}) Font name for pop-up menu items, in non-toolkit versions of Emacs. (For -toolkit versions, see @ref{Lucid Resources}, also see @ref{Motif +toolkit versions, see @ref{Lucid Resources}, also see @ref{LessTif Resources}.) @item @code{synchronous} (class @code{Synchronous}) @@ -1126,16 +1127,17 @@ menu bar appear like the LessTif/Motif one. @end table -@node Motif Resources -@section Motif Menu X Resources -@cindex Menu X Resources (Motif widgets) -@cindex Motif Widget X Resources +@node LessTif Resources +@section LessTif Menu X Resources +@cindex Menu X Resources (LessTif widgets) +@cindex LessTif Widget X Resources If the Emacs installed at your site was built to use the X toolkit -with the Motif widgets, then the menu bar is a separate widget and has -its own resources. The resource names contain @samp{pane.menubar} -(following, as always, the name of the Emacs invocation or @samp{Emacs} -which stands for all Emacs invocations). Specify them like this: +with the LessTif or Motif widgets, then the menu bar is a separate +widget and has its own resources. The resource names contain +@samp{pane.menubar} (following, as always, the name of the Emacs +invocation or @samp{Emacs} which stands for all Emacs invocations). +Specify them like this: @smallexample Emacs.pane.menubar.@var{subwidget}.@var{resource}: @var{value}