From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kim Young Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: newbie needs to be bailed out Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:22:36 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325706078 8305 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 19:41:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:41:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 20:41:14 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 1RiWi2-0006dn-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:41:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiWi1-0000U0-FG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37012) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiWQ7-0005CS-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:22:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiWQ6-0002O9-EH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from nk11p03mm-asmtp997.mac.com ([17.158.233.228]:54873 helo=nk11p99mm-asmtpout007.mac.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiWQ6-0002Ns-9s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.4.53] (packer.edu [209.177.44.2]) by nk11p03mm-asmtp997.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0LXA00BUBGHPQJ40@nk11p03mm-asmtp997.mac.com> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:22:39 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.5.7110,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-01-04_07:2012-01-04, 2012-01-04, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=5 spamscore=5 ipscore=0 suspectscore=1 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1201040192 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-Received-From: 17.158.233.228 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:41:10 -0500 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:83322 Archived-At: Hello, I am running Mac os x lion and I want to use emacs to try to write some shell scripts for work. I am new to emacs so I would like help with some very basic things. 1. What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is provided with lion? 2. How do I enable color highlighting for syntext? 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? Thanks for any help you can give me. John "Kim" Young 1663 71st Street Brooklyn, NY 11204 (917) 620-5562 kimyoung@mac.com