From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs or .emacs-init file to modify ^H Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:54:47 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <2c016$451a8f30$49ede10$10674@DIALUPUSA.NET> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159371686 3134 80.91.229.2 (27 Sep 2006 15:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 27 17:41:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSbWg-00025A-Gr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:40:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSbWf-0001O9-JJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!DIALUPUSA.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Trace: 2c016451a8f30a13b7bb510674 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142056 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37676 Archived-At: .emacs or .emacs-init file to modify ^H "Anderson Krista" wrote in message news:mailman.7483.1159355800.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... Hello, I'm a long-time emacs user (First Bell Labs and then GNU), but new to MS Windows. If I have a few simple things to do like: (global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char) Better to use some other key combo. C-h is a prefix for many useful help functions. If you override this with your own assignment it will make the documentation less useful. Btw, why is there both 'delete-backward-char and 'backward-delete-char ??? Anyone ??? (global-set-key "\M-?" 'help-command) This is okay since M-? is undefined 'out of the box' >(display-time) Maybe better to use Customize Emacs > Specific Option from the Menu Bar. This will write '(display-time-mode t nil (time)) into a custom-set-variables form in your .emacs. >(setq line-number-mode t) Same thing here. Apparently this is set to t automatically when you specify '(line-number-display-limit someinteger), also using Customize. This should probably be set if there is a chance that you will look at huges files. >then how do I make gnu emacs point to the MS Windows directory that has the .emacs or .emacs-init file? Also, how do I make it find a >simple lisp file in an MS Windows directory? .emacs should be at home in the HOME directory. This defaults to the root of the boot partition but can be set in autoexec.bat or another .bat file if you wish. Maybe also in other ways in the later incarnations of msw. I am using msw98 here. If you make a short-cut for launching Emacs then you can specify a start directory in Properties > Program > Working: Lisp files should eventually be stored in \lisp or ... \site-lisp but you can start editing them in the Working: directory at first. LOADPATH is usually something like ...\site-lisp;...\lisp;...\leim so that you will have to specify the full path of the .el file if you want to load it from somewher e else. >I didn't build it from a configuration file, but just downloaded binaries. Same here. I don't think I would be able to figure out how to build it. >Thanks much, >Krista Anderson