Re: Emacs New User Questions

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Benjamin Badgley <mortecanine@peoplepc.com> writes:

> I will probably thrashed for asking, is there a way to colorize the 
> buffers in a manner similar to Vim? Also could possibly use a bit of 

In what way does Vim colourise the buffers? Do you just mean normal
keyword/font/color associations? Emacs already does this in Emacs 22 and
later where font-lock-mode is turned on by default I think.

e.g see

http://richardriley.net/projects/emacs/dotemacs

For fancier stuff see:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorTheme

(It's a bit confusing that page imo, but the main point is to download the latest
color-theme tar, add it to your lisp load path and then install a color
theme)

I actually started to use a vim favorite recently and so my .emacs
contains

(require 'zenburn)
(color-theme-zenburn)

Google will locate the zenburn.el file.

But for your googling efforts, "color-theme emacs" are the key words.

regards

r.


> help on getting started with Clisp development. I search Google and come 
> up with all sorts of otherworldly arcane wizardry documentation. "Slow 
> down, I'm a newbie that really wants to learn this stuff but I'm a slow 
> learner. Break it down into easy chunks for me, please?"

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