From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Code Fox Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: New to Emacs Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:29:48 +0530 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DFF49F4.4080601@ftml.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040140686 3359 80.91.224.249 (17 Dec 2002 15:58:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18OK6f-0000s1-00 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 16:58:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OK6I-0005rs-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OK61-0005rT-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OK5z-0005qc-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from www.fastmail.fm ([66.111.4.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18OK5y-0005qA-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CB914948 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 ([127.0.0.1] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by fastmail.fm with SMTP; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:20 -0500 X-Epoch: 1040140640 X-Sasl-enc: QGMRQoBHjcaAk6RBSGvt+w Original-Received: from ftml.net (dialpool-210-214-131-208.maa.sify.net [210.214.131.208]) by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E15116135 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:57:18 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4747 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4747 I just downloaded emacs 21.2 for windows. I haven't used it before. I'm just getting used to navigating and using the control and meta key commands. Right now I'm kind of overwhelmed by the features available in emacs. I find it a bit difficult to follow the gnu emacs manual for a first read. Could someone provide me with links to get started with emacs? Also I have a few doubts: 1. I use many scripting languages like PHP, ASP, and Python. If I want to write my own syntax hilighting for a particular language how do I do it? 2. I have an IMAP mail account. I configured gnus to retrieve mails from my IMAP account but I couldn't see all folders. Is there an email client for emacs which would let me use my IMAP account with ease, like moving messages between 2 folders? 3. I use various C++ compilers. How do I configure emacs to compile my program using a particular compiler? 4. How do I create a custom spell-check dictionary? Thanks.