Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 17:34:40 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: "Jude T. DaShiell" cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: emacs startup error In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Jude T. DaShiell wrote: > Attached is the transcript of emacs as it starts on dos 7.10 machine. > If the means to fix this error is in the faq, please send me the reference > for the section. > Otherwise I'd like to know how to fix error and if not possible what > implications are involved. Emacs complains about msdos-menu-active face. This is the face (actually, only the foreground and background colors) used by Emacs to draw the pop-up and drop-down menus. Since you probably won't be using the mouse, this is harmless in your case. As far as I could see, judging from the script you posted, the message is printed while Emacs reads and executes your _emacs init file. So I suspect that some parts of your _emacs are inappropriate for the operation under the -nw switch; in particular, the menu-related faces are not created by Emacs when invoked with -nw, since neither the mouse nor the colors aren't supported in that mode. So I suggest to go through your _emacs and remove any references to *-menu-*-face in particular, and to faces and colors in general, because "emacs -nw" doesn't support colors (in version 19.34).