Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor with a large learning curve when there's work to be done.
I edit mostly C and Perl code. I'm looking for tips to help in my change over. To keep this somewhat on-topic (e.g. debian), I've installed $ dpkg -l | grep emacs ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen. ii xemacs21 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink ii xemacs21-bases 2002.03.29-1 Editor and kitchen sink -- compiled elisp su ii xemacs21-bin 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- support binaries ii xemacs21-nomul 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule binary ii xemacs21-suppo 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- architecture inde is there anything else I should install for editing C and Perl? There's lots of Emacs tutorials found by Google. Any recommendations on ones you might have found most useful? The tips I need to help me start using Emacs are in basic configuration (these are mostly common functions of my old editor that I can't live without): - I don't want long lines to wrap with the U-turn arrow at the end, I want a scroll bar. - I want tab to insert spaces instead of tabs, and each indent is to the next 4 char column. - I'm not a fan of syntax highlighting. Maybe I should be. - I need to be able to find matching braces (find the start of end of the current block) - I need to be able to indent and un-indent a block of text. - Auto-indent/un-indent, of course, plus smart indenting when I open a new brace. - How do I get my button 4 and 5 to scroll (the mouse wheel works in other programs)? - I'd like to have black on white text, and a smaller font in the buffers. Is is sacrilegious to want the cut/copy/paste keys to be mapped to the common C-c C-x and C-v keys? I guess that would break a lot in emacs. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
