From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: seting default values Date: 11 Jan 2004 08:11:13 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1073801597 4211 80.91.224.253 (11 Jan 2004 06:13:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 06:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 11 07:13:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AfYqY-0001Ly-00 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 07:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfZlB-00070u-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:11:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfZkv-00070m-Dt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AfZkP-0006t9-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AfZkP-0006t0-63 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:10:57 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (wsgr12@yahoo.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15924 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15924 > From: wsgr12@yahoo.com (wsgr12) > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: 10 Jan 2004 16:41:49 -0800 > > I would like to know what to write in .emacs in order to First, a word of advice: don't lump several unrelated issues into a single message, because that makes it hard to follow the resulting discussion, as it usually breaks up into several separate sub-threads. It also makes it harder for you to come up with a meaningful Subject line, thus some people who read this forum will miss the thread. > 1. set the default font to be terminal (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-*-*terminal-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")) > 2. change the default screen size (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(height . 40)) (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(width . 90)) > 3. change the tab size (setq tab-width 2) > 4. autoload some mode (autoload 'matlab-mode "matlab-mode" "Enter Matlab mode." t) Note that all of this is documented in the Emacs manual, so please make a point of looking there first, and ask questions here if you cannot find anything in the manual or if what you found is somehow unclear. That way, you will become familiar with the on-line docs faster, and you also help making the documentation better when you report its shortcomings.