From: David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:15:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bp3ng5$tgg$1@news.net.uni-c.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.86.1068840578.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> I'm a little disappointed (but not surprised) that everyone replying
> so far says to edit the .emacs file.
>
> The simple and user-friendly answer is to use the Options menu, enable
> Syntax Highlighting and then Save Options.
>
> I'm also encouraging new users to use the custom interface rather than
> scaring them with elisp edits.
>
I agree completely that there's no need to do things the hard way, if
there is an easy way. I have nothing against menu systems and such that
makes a program more user-friendly. The only reason I wanted to know
"the hard way", is that one of my reasons for learning emacs is that I
want to learn to use a powerful editor that is likely to be available on
all sorts of system, even if I am only logging in with ssh etc.
And I can't be certain that there is this nice menu on all the other
systems that I might use emacs on. So I want to learn to use emacs
"platform independantly".
I know that there are other editors that fills the bill, but I haven't
found one that felt natural to me. I have tried hard to learn vim, but
it all disappears again. Maybe the same will happen with emacs, I don't
know. Maybe I should write my own editor :)
/David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-14 15:52 Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation David Rasmussen
2003-11-14 17:13 ` Uwe Siart
2003-11-14 17:48 ` Jiri Pejchal
2003-11-14 18:08 ` Michael M Mason
2003-11-14 18:20 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-15 14:18 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 15:08 ` Artur Hefczyc
[not found] ` <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>
2003-11-14 19:07 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15 1:11 ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-14 22:13 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-14 22:22 ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-15 9:47 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-17 13:39 ` Kevin Dziulko
[not found] ` <mailman.86.1068840578.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-14 21:33 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-14 22:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-14 23:15 ` David Rasmussen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.117.1068862385.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-15 11:06 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 12:43 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-15 12:47 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 15:09 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 16:50 ` Artur Hefczyc
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