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From: Jiri Pejchal <xpejchal@fi.muni.cz>
Subject: Re: Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:48:10 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qlc3ccq4zad.fsf@nymfe04.fi.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bp2tgs$j0p$1@news.net.uni-c.dk

David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net> writes:

> I've installed the Windows version of Emacs 21.3.1.
> I have read some tutorials, but I have two questions (for now):
> 
> 1) How do I enable syntax highlighting by default, for any type of
>    file / extension / mode that supports it? I have enabled it in the
>    Options menu, and saved my options. But isn't there a non-menu-way
>    of doing this, so I can get to learn and understand how to
>    configure emacs myself?



Put (global-font-lock-mode 1) in your .emacs (maybe it's _emacs on
Windows) -- that is configuration file for Emacs. (You don't have to do
it if you have saved the options).

Start with Control-h t --> tutorial
Then you can start reading manual: Control-h i Emacs RETURN


> 
> 2) When I edit a java file, the Java major mode i automatically
>    loaded. But when I press TAB at the beginning of a new line, i get
>    an indentation of 4 spaces. How do I alter this to 2 spaces

(setq c-basic-offset 2) 

>    instead? Or any other number of spaces? What if I want to get a tab
>    character instead of spaces, when indenting (I really don't, but I
>    would like to know)?

Everything is possible, just read the manual:-)

--
Jiri Pejchal

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-14 17:48 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 [this message]
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] ` <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
     [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
2003-11-14 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] ` <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>
2003-11-14 19:07   ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15  1:11   ` Peter S Galbraith
2003-11-15 15:09 ` David Rasmussen
2003-11-15 16:50   ` Artur Hefczyc

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