From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philipp Haselwarter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:40:14 +0100 Message-ID: <8739bvjdm9.fsf@nzebook.haselwarter.org> References: <937EB8E2-0B9A-4E61-950F-6302CE35FED2@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325716837 23411 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 22:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Kim Young To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 23:40:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiZVW-00050v-BW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiZVV-0007VQ-Fy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50106) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiZVO-0007Ui-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiZVL-0006GR-SQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:60712) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiZVL-0006Fv-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:40:19 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Jan 2012 22:40:16 -0000 Original-Received: from p4FE81CBE.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO nzebook.haselwarter.org) [79.232.28.190] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 04 Jan 2012 23:40:16 +0100 X-Authenticated: #26138819 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18lJtceb7klOtrymQB7lcda4nWydaTjztvkKcOTo2 xPcvCusxLtsQmg X-NSA-Fodder: eavesdropping advisors number key Montenegro top secret Abbas X-Antipastobozoticataclysm: Bariumenemanilow In-Reply-To: <937EB8E2-0B9A-4E61-950F-6302CE35FED2@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:45:12 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83329 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa 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! > ---8<---[snipped 10 lines]---8<--- 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