From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Cerutti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: indentation, setting variables, commands, and M-x Date: 3 Feb 2006 21:05:09 +0100 Organization: X-Privat NNTP Server - http://www.x-privat.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139007348 24007 80.91.229.2 (3 Feb 2006 22:55:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 03 23:55:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F59qA-0004FW-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 23:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F59tL-0000as-Hp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:58:59 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Win32) Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: $$5lmnjdfxhb4w44u.x-privat.org Original-Lines: 30 X-Authenticated-User: $$ptxrd0r0xn_9cl$bayv Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@x-privat.org Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.musoftware.de!news.albasani.net!news.datemas.de!newsfeed.x-privat.net!x-privat.org!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137359 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32983 Archived-At: On 2006-02-03, Drew Adams wrote: > In this case, you want to search the manual for "indent" or > "indentation". Looking through the explanation of Info mode (from > `C-h m'), you'll see that `i' looks up a topic in the index, and `s' > searches the manual for a term. Using either `i indentation' or `s > indentation' will soon get you to the part of the manual that > answers most of your questions (`i indentation' will take you there > directly, because there is an "indentation" index entry). It's a slight pain when Emacs uses vocabulary that is hard to guess, e.g., fill for line-wrapping, and font-lock for syntax coloring. In these situations, s and i aren't much good. Those issues are slowly sorting themselves out for me, though. > Emacs is a self-documenting system - perhaps the first such and > still probably the best. Spend some time learning the help commands > first (`C-h ?'), then explore the manual a bit. You'll soon be > hooked. I'm finally learning emacs because the functional programming world seems to rely on it for so many of their IDEs. I'm on a strict regimen of NO VIM until I'm finally confortable with it. Learning vim first was just a historical accident, after all. -- Neil Cerutti When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it. --Paris Hilton