From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Tab doesn't work in emacs Date: 30 Jan 2003 16:22:02 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043944572 30928 80.91.224.249 (30 Jan 2003 16:36:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:36:12 +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 18eHfc-00082J-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:36:08 +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 18eHfF-0007tA-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:35:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1043943722 28212 9.2.16.245 (30 Jan 2003 16:22:02 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jan 2003 16:22:02 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109586 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6103 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6103 In article , Christopher Forsythe writes: > Hi, > > I've lost the functionality of my tab button in emacs 21.1.1. I am > running os x 10.2.3, and lost the functionality of my delete key as well, it > would bring up the help menu. Fixed that with a .emacs file. I'd like to be > able to do two things > > 1) Fix the tab function Type C-h c TAB and tell us what you get. It might be that the TAB key is mapped to a function other than a primitive tab. > 2) Make the instructions in the .emacs file global, so that all users would > have it by just typing .emacs, but without putting a .emacs file into > everyones home directory. Think really hard before you do this. Is it really a site wide customization that people will need in order for emacs to work? Or is a cool customization that you like and want to share with everyone? If the latter, it might annoy more users than it helps, when emacs behaves in s strange non-default way and they can't figure out why. >>From the manual: There can also be a "default init file", which is the library named `default.el', found via the standard search path for libraries. The Emacs distribution contains no such library; your site may create one for local customizations. If this library exists, it is loaded whenever you start Emacs (except when you specify `-q'). But your init file, if any, is loaded first; if it sets `inhibit-default-init' non-`nil', then `default' is not loaded. Your site may also have a "site startup file"; this is named `site-start.el', if it exists. Emacs loads this library before it loads your init file. To inhibit loading of this library, use the option `-no-site-file'. -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646