* Three questions
@ 2004-09-11 21:35 William Payne
2004-09-11 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2004-09-12 0:09 ` John Paul Wallington
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: William Payne @ 2004-09-11 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello there, using a CVS version of Emacs (compiled some time in august) and
I have three questions:
How do I set my Delete key to delete the currently selected region (and with
selected I mean selected using the mouse)?
Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
auto-mode-alist))
My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had Makefile$ or
something similar), if the path contained the string "Makefile". That wasn't
so good. This varaint triggers makefile mode only if the actual file name
itself is called Makefile: that is good. However, I want it to trigger make
file mode if the file name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so
Makefile.in would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
Finally, can I pass a parameter to the configure script when compiling emacs
from source to make it build without sound support?
/ WP
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* RE: Three questions
2004-09-11 21:35 Three questions William Payne
@ 2004-09-11 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2004-09-12 0:09 ` John Paul Wallington
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2004-09-11 21:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Well, for the DEL key (usually Backspace - not the same as Delete), use
Delete Selection mode:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DeleteSelectionMode.
For the Delete key, you can always bind it to command kill-region.
-----Original Message----
How do I set my Delete key to delete the currently selected region (and with
selected I mean selected using the mouse)?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread
* Re: Three questions
2004-09-11 21:35 Three questions William Payne
2004-09-11 21:53 ` Drew Adams
@ 2004-09-12 0:09 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-09-12 14:40 ` William Payne
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: John Paul Wallington @ 2004-09-12 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:
> How do I set my Delete key to delete the currently selected region (and with
> selected I mean selected using the mouse)?
Turn on Delete Selection Mode; either M-x customize-variable
delete-selection-mode then set and save or put
(delete-selection-mode 1) in your .emacs file.
> Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had Makefile$ or
> something similar), if the path contained the string "Makefile". That wasn't
> so good. This varaint triggers makefile mode only if the actual file name
> itself is called Makefile: that is good. However, I want it to trigger make >
> file mode if the file name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so
> Makefile.in would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
should work as you expect by default. Does it?
> Finally, can I pass a parameter to the configure script when compiling emacs
> from source to make it build without sound support?
Try configure --without-sound
Generally, running configure with the --help option should
suggest options.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Three questions
2004-09-12 0:09 ` John Paul Wallington
@ 2004-09-12 14:40 ` William Payne
2004-09-17 23:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: William Payne @ 2004-09-12 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
"John Paul Wallington" <jpw@gnu.org> wrote in message
news:86mzzwz6so.fsf@vaio.shootybangbang.com...
> "William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:
>
>> How do I set my Delete key to delete the currently selected region (and
>> with
>> selected I mean selected using the mouse)?
>
> Turn on Delete Selection Mode; either M-x customize-variable
> delete-selection-mode then set and save or put
> (delete-selection-mode 1) in your .emacs file.
>
>> Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
>> (setq auto-mode-alist
>> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
>> auto-mode-alist))
>>
>> My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had Makefile$ or
>> something similar), if the path contained the string "Makefile". That
>> wasn't
>> so good. This varaint triggers makefile mode only if the actual file name
>> itself is called Makefile: that is good. However, I want it to trigger
>> make >
>> file mode if the file name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile,
>> so
>> Makefile.in would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
>
> If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
> should work as you expect by default. Does it?
>
>> Finally, can I pass a parameter to the configure script when compiling
>> emacs
>> from source to make it build without sound support?
>
> Try configure --without-sound
>
> Generally, running configure with the --help option should
> suggest options.
Thanks Paul.
(delete-selection mode 1) works.
the --without-sound option doesn't appear when I run ./configure --help, but
I will try it next time I build emacs.
And if I comment out the lines regarding makefile-mode, I don't get makefile
mode for files named Makefile.txt for example, only if they are named
Makefile.
/ WP
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Three questions
2004-09-12 14:40 ` William Payne
@ 2004-09-17 23:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-17 23:27 ` William Payne
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2004-09-17 23:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
William Payne wrote:
> "John Paul Wallington" <jpw@gnu.org> wrote in message
> news:86mzzwz6so.fsf@vaio.shootybangbang.com...
>>"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:
>>>Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
>>>(setq auto-mode-alist
>>> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
>>> auto-mode-alist))
>>>
>>>My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had
>>>Makefile$ or something similar), if the path contained the string
>>>"Makefile". That wasn't so good. This varaint triggers makefile
>>>mode only if the actual file name itself is called Makefile: that
>>>is good. However, I want it to trigger make > file mode if the file
>>>name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so Makefile.in
>>>would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
>>
>>If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
>>should work as you expect by default. Does it?
>
> And if I comment out the lines regarding makefile-mode, I don't get
> makefile mode for files named Makefile.txt for example, only if they
> are named Makefile.
To match an optional extension:
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\(\\.[^.]*\\)?\\'" . makefile-mode)
auto-mode-alist))
--
Kevin Rodgers
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread* Re: Three questions
2004-09-17 23:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
@ 2004-09-17 23:27 ` William Payne
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: William Payne @ 2004-09-17 23:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:414B6DF3.8000002@yahoo.com...
> William Payne wrote:
> > "John Paul Wallington" <jpw@gnu.org> wrote in message
> > news:86mzzwz6so.fsf@vaio.shootybangbang.com...
> >>"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:
> >>>Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
> >>>(setq auto-mode-alist
> >>> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
> >>> auto-mode-alist))
> >>>
> >>>My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had
> >>>Makefile$ or something similar), if the path contained the string
> >>>"Makefile". That wasn't so good. This varaint triggers makefile
> >>>mode only if the actual file name itself is called Makefile: that
> >>>is good. However, I want it to trigger make > file mode if the file
> >>>name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so Makefile.in
> >>>would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
> >>
> >>If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
> >>should work as you expect by default. Does it?
> >
> > And if I comment out the lines regarding makefile-mode, I don't get
> > makefile mode for files named Makefile.txt for example, only if they
> > are named Makefile.
>
> To match an optional extension:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\(\\.[^.]*\\)?\\'" . makefile-mode)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
>
Thanks Kevin, that works!
/ WP
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