From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie: adding a library Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 16:33:34 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F78B33E.3050006@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064875750 29195 80.91.224.253 (29 Sep 2003 22:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 30 00:49:08 2003 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 1A46pH-0000Fh-00 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:49:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A46me-0006ag-83 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:46:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064874811 10554011 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116951 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:12877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12877 David Sumbler wrote: > I run GNU Emacs 21.2.1 on a RedHat 8.0 machine. > > I have recently read through "Sams Teach Yourself Emacs in 24 Hours". > > My very first attempt at customising Emacs hasn't worked, though. > > I want to be able to read compressed files, so I added the line > > (require 'jka-compr) > > to my .emacs file. But Emacs seems to just ignore it (I looked at the > *Messages* buffer, which did not even mention it). > > I tried also adding the line > > (setq load-path (cons "/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp" load-path)) > > before the "require" line, to tell Emacs where jka-compr.elc is, but > this did not help. > > What am I doing wrong? "Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor." But you read an outdated document instead of the fine manual. Typing: C-h i m emacs RET i compress RET yields: | Accessing Compressed Files | ========================== | | Emacs comes with a library that can automatically uncompress | compressed files when you visit them, and automatically recompress them | if you alter them and save them. To enable this feature, type the | command `M-x auto-compression-mode'. You can enable it permanently by | customizing the option `auto-compression-mode'. Then typing `C-h f auto-compression-mode' and `C-h v auto-compression-mode' lead you to: (auto-compression-mode 1). -- Kevin Rodgers