Tips for moving to XEmacs
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.
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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