From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthew Flaschen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Some questions of a newbie Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:41 -0400 Message-ID: <462932E1.4060706@gatech.edu> References: <46288bfb$0$337$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177105144 15542 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 21:39:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:39:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 23:38:58 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hf0oj-0006Zy-O8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:38:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hf0tp-0006lw-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:44:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hf0tb-0006lr-K7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hf0ta-0006lf-2F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hf0tZ-0006lc-VW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:43:57 -0400 Original-Received: from deliverator4.gatech.edu ([130.207.165.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hf0oT-00088K-3l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from deliverator4.gatech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 30E8CA4E8 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from mailprx2.gatech.edu (mailprx2.prism.gatech.edu [130.207.171.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.mail.gatech.edu", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by deliverator4.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A9AA4A6 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) Original-Received: from [128.61.73.81] (r73h81.res.gatech.edu [128.61.73.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (sasl: method=PLAIN, username=mflaschen3@mailprx2.gatech.edu, sender=n/a) by mailprx2.gatech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE10A2608 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:38:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:42926 Archived-At: 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