From: Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Kim Young <kimyoung@me.com>
Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:40:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739bvjdm9.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <937EB8E2-0B9A-4E61-950F-6302CE35FED2@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:45:12 +0100")
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 04.01.2012 um 20:22 schrieb Kim Young:
>
>> 1. What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is provided with lion?
>
> emacs --version
>
>>
>> 2. How do I enable color highlighting for syntext?
>
> Use a colour terminal!
>
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Or emacs in graphical mode; also make sure to turn on
`global-font-lock-mode'.
> 3 How do I get a list of the command sequences that auto generate things like
> "for", "while" and "do" loops for the various languages (C++, ruby, etc) I might
> use?
With emacs come `abbrev.el' and `skeleton.el', I like `yasnippet' very
much. Make sure to take a look at the emacswiki:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryTemplates
--
Philipp Haselwarter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-04 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 19:22 newbie needs to be bailed out Kim Young
2012-01-04 19:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-04 22:40 ` Philipp Haselwarter [this message]
2012-01-04 23:57 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-04 23:54 ` Jai Dayal
2012-01-05 0:14 ` Marko Vojinovic
2012-01-05 0:16 ` Jai Dayal
2012-01-05 0:20 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-05 12:32 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-05 3:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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