Re: Tips for moving to XEmacs
For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do
lots of work with brace matching and indenting. I like syntax
highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking
global-font-lock-mode.
Best,
Andy
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> 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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