From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Browder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Need "xemacs/init.el" => "emacs/init.el" help Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 13:44:03 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453410269 9194 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2016 21:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:04:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 21 22:04:24 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMP2-00054R-2H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:04:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMP1-0008Uw-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:04:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aML9x-0005YD-W2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aML9w-0003SC-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-lf0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::231]:35723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aML9w-0003S6-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-lf0-x231.google.com with SMTP id c192so33557613lfe.2 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=4dB9er5L2I5a/dglbqysD0a2a84JKcSSdpIJ+eePR5M=; b=Clfd5kYwafHu4fZKWJFNJDWuYy7sdgofROeFfTTtQp0waW682MzHJwOGPZFV1mEvHE 5AAMO303EYpyqTaKJGgn2GsxvM0N+P7csQLE4ZijzzLdtocyv207cA4Wv7pFs7VZxQZv GeL87RipYsjJ0oAItOxV8eBaKJ9bsnGsQyrMltL2PC8EaClsZRzZ3giQXlINGyb8cQqO zU+G1uEhf30lz6b+3uIGsfm4new6OcaRKSaN9WS7/sg9K+nkzWjiCB41Jf9P/LXZ9PkQ yQuw5L1vzOD/W8PMYOK+hI1iKBhggOaDd+LJ7rmmCYGy/7DInbC9V6O700/eLhMqwEeh EHTg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=4dB9er5L2I5a/dglbqysD0a2a84JKcSSdpIJ+eePR5M=; b=iZGR0+HcTkxz7zYOQSC6NQ6Tuiv+ZxxxbI7g6r0wq89KKOrIt0QWU1zSLycH94xM/U 5iNRfktJ3Q9M+b7JPUA3BwAONxAWSXCaJd8pWhyvblptbAcmKchVCXq8ATQKO4peEMap Nn+amLXTruMHJU+5mHVOb1uVZxXLlI5DRlSlrxlWA2q4Zb65nIWbTSYZsCAekbIcyhLX 7RVfGWxK+NPCrQ0Gw2DLzBPktHBRYW4ycmKJFMjn8NdDeIAwj++cp7iVg9LJETEiGNWr l7aYWYZZZSs9rUgEDKgBHZZZnwzXKEp1Lx8PPtuo2pSE7/EgdM7SMqOpbnQqtit05Xa2 SiMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl+ccYsqJ69FjMonmufuIBKByX5p7Yks5ylioT648NAL2m9/WKlJ0jVHn8D86skqoFMmbZFDmXWLQi5ZDUtcVhtoNoSoA== X-Received: by 10.25.209.138 with SMTP id i132mr16202311lfg.4.1453405483391; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:43 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.25.155.13 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:44:03 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c07::231 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:04:12 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108809 Archived-At: I have bitten the bullet to start using Emacs vs. my 20+ years using XEmacs use. I have never been a real power user, but I have my init.el doing the things I need most. So far I have discovered the excellent "M-x list-packages" way to install packages and have started trying to duplicate the behavior I'm used to with XEmacs. I've also discovered Eric Schulte's "Emacs 24 Starter Kit" here: http://github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/ but I will save that for a bit later. One of the things I use all the time in XEmacs is NO line wrapping except when I manually use function "fill-paragraph". (I have that bound to a key for ease of use.) I will admit that the "fill-paragraph" didn't work reliably in XEmacs in all modes (I hope Emacs will be able to fix that), but for the most part it does what I need in XEmacs. But I cannot get it to work in Emacs. Here's my entire Emacs init.el at the moment (all blank lines and some comments removed): ; Personal emacs mods of Tom Browder (require 'package) (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")) ; packages installed via M-x list-packages: ; perl6-mode (setq-default major-mode 'text-mode) (set-default 'truncate-lines t) (setq-default fill-column 70) (global-set-key [f6] 'fill-paragraph) ; prefer cperl for Perl 5 (defalias 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode) So far, and only using a text buffer, the truncate lines t seems to work, but I can't get any such line to wrap with the "fill-paragraph" function. I have read about the init.el entries not normally affecting modes already loaded without special lisp code. Is that what may be happening in my case? Any help will be greatly appreciated. BTW, the major motivation for the change to Emacs has been the arrival of Perl 6 and a special Perl 6 mode available with Emacs. In addition, all the *emacs people I correspond with on various projects use Emacs. Emacs is still not as pretty in appearance as XEmacs, but functionality seems much better. Best regards, -Tom