Re: Some questions of a newbie

[Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>]

Rjjd wrote:
> 
> Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> I started using Emacs a week ago. It was always discouraged, but I
>> need to
>> work with docbook, so I started using it. I wish I had done it sooner.
>> But there are a few quirks.
>> I am using 21.3.1.
>>
>> I like to have the possibility to use the clipboard, so I added the
>> following to my .emacs:
>>  (define-key global-map "\C-W" 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
>>  (define-key global-map "\C-Y" 'clipboard-yank)
>>
>> First it seemed to work normal. I use C-w to delete something to the
>> kill-ring and C-W to copy something to the clipboard. I used C-y to get
>> something from the kill-ring and C-Y to get something from the clipboard.
>> But for one reason or another c-w and c-y did not work anymore, so I
>> disabled it. What could be the reason?
>>
>> For comment I see that there is sometimes used one, sometimes two and
>> sometime three ';'. Does this has a reason, or not?
> 
> I think there is some convention about classifying comments.  I don't
> know what it is.  If you want to publish some elisp code to the
> community, it would be nice to follow the convention, but the world
> won't end if you cannot figure it out.
> 
>>
>> Is there a good way to find which keybindings are used, so a free one
>> can be
>> coupled to a macro?
> 
> describe-bindings
> (I found this with apropos bind, i.e. ESC-x apropos RET bind RET)
> 
>>
>> In my .emacs I have:
>>   (setq ediff-use-toolbar-p nil)
>>
>> But the toolbar is still displayed. What am I doing wrong?
>>
> 
> When you see the toolbar displayed, what is the value of
> ediff-use-toolbar-p?  It could be that loading ediff sets it back to t
> or somesuch.  (I'm on Windows, and I don't have ediff-use-toolbar-p.)
> 
> 
>> I added org-mode and nxml-mode.
>> The first uses:
>>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
>> the second uses:
>>   (setq auto-mode-alist
>>     (cons '("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode)
>>       auto-mode-alist))
>>
>> Is there a reason for this, or is it just what the creator liked? If the
>> second is the reason, then I prefer the first way and will change the way
>> of nxml.
>>
> 
> The first notation lists one file extension.  I'm not sure why it has a
> "$".

It means end of line, so aquatic.organism won't match.

Matt Flaschen