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From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com
Subject: Re: configuring emacs as a programmer's editor
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:09:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uwtau2veh.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1151627894.208462.326680@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com

"Ted" <r.ted.byers@rogers.com> writes:

> I suppose I have two questions.  1) How do I modify the .emacs file
> I've managed to cobble together to fully support my needs?

The best way is probably to throw it out and start again.

Fire up customize, and go through the various options that interest
you. This will teach you more about Emacs than blindly copying
snippets of other people's .emacs files, and the result will work,
without requiring a whole newsgroup to help with debugging it.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-30  0:38 configuring emacs as a programmer's editor Ted
2006-06-30  7:03 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-30  7:04 ` Andreas Roehler
2006-06-30  8:02   ` Le Wang
2006-06-30 12:13     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3562.1151669638.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-07-01  4:20       ` Le Wang
2006-06-30  7:37 ` Le Wang
2006-06-30 16:14   ` Ted
2006-07-01 23:19     ` Le Wang
2006-07-02  3:46     ` B. T. Raven
2006-07-02  8:32       ` Tim X
2006-07-03 20:15     ` Ted
2006-07-04  8:34       ` Tim X
2006-07-03 22:09 ` Jason Rumney [this message]

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