From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic Emacs Config File Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0200 Organization: DJCBSoftware Message-ID: <20101210061017.560484560BE@djcbsoftware.nl> References: <30409161.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291998346 31733 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 16:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: cristianluca Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 17:25:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PR5mu-0004TT-Ad for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:25:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PR5mt-0006Ej-Nh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49761 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQwBV-0004AQ-OV for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQwBU-00043Q-Dd for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:10:25 -0500 Original-Received: from vs14.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.102]:48382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PQwBU-00043H-7h for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 01:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from saunalahti-vams (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vs14.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id E481CA606B; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from vs14.mail.saunalahti.fi ([127.0.0.1]) by vs14.mail.saunalahti.fi ([195.197.172.102]) with SMTP (gateway) id A02DD9E1A3C; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0200 Original-Received: from gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi [195.197.172.111]) by vs14.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8117A606B; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:19 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from djcbsoftware.nl (a88-114-92-181.elisa-laajakaista.fi [88.114.92.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id C99642165E9; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from cthulhu.mindcrime.djcbsoftware.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by djcbsoftware.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 560484560BE; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:10:17 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <30409161.post@talk.nabble.com> Mail-Reply-To: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/24.0 Mule/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Antivirus: VAMS X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77394 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:53:32 -0800 (PST), cristianluca wrote: > Please can anyone point me to a basic emacs config file, I want to start > learning to configurate my emacs but I get all sorts of errors when I try to > edit .emacs. My file will have a couple of key bindings and color theme. I'd just start with an empty .emacs, and add things only when you understand them; copy-pasting large blobs from other people's .emacs files quickly makes things very hard to understand. Some old emacs-fu articles may be helpful: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2008/12/emacs.html http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2008/12/binding-keys.html http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/03/color-theming.html Best wishes, Dirk. -- Dirk-Jan C. Binnema Helsinki, Finland e:djcb@djcbsoftware.nl w:www.djcbsoftware.nl pgp: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C