From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Justin Birtwell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Customizing EMacs 20 for Windows Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:50:54 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039021916 27254 80.91.224.249 (4 Dec 2002 17:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 17:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JcqF-0006a6-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 17:57:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Jcoh-0005kH-00; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:56:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!24.30.200.11!news-east.rr.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc04.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.161.110.207 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: nwrddc04.gnilink.net 1039020654 68.161.110.207 (Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:50:54 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:50:54 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107728 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4278 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4278 Hello, Newbie here. I'm trying to setup my Emacs for Windows to program SML/NJ. The documentation talk allot about a '.emacs' files which I apparently don't seem to have. I've read the FAQ for emacs and realize that this is a common question. Digging a little deeper I found some documentation that says for Emacs 20 new installations don' t have the '.emacs' files. This is quoted for the FAQ from :http://www.lerner.co.il/emacs/faq_5.html#SEC31 "In general, new Emacs users should not have `.emacs' files, because it causes confusing non-standard behavior. Then they send questions to help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org asking why Emacs isn't behaving as documented" So what is a Newbie to do? On one hand most of the documentation to be found on Emacs refers to a .emacs file. But the file doesn't exist with the install. I should say that I unpack emacs into a folder (c:\Program Files\emacs) and ran the setup routine addpm.exe. Emacs does seem to run fine so far. But alas for the customization. The FAQ goes on to point me to the new Options->Customize EMacs feature. Things are looking good. I sleekest the 'Programming' options then 'Languages' then get a list of languages that are customized for emacs. But no ML or SML? Now what? So now I find SML Documentation on how to customize emacs for SML and it all refers to this '.emacs' file, which I don't have. I know this is totally a newbie/bonehead question. Please forgive me. But what can I do? Thanks, Justin