From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: James Freer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for writers (was Emacs users a dying breed?) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:38:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9809cd1a-9086-4022-af79-732fb6149f20@q5g2000pba.googlegroups.com> <87mx3vzqd7.fsf@friendface.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87ipejip09.fsf@gnu.org> <4FE453F0.8040304@easy-emacs.de> <7d431a11-f7fb-42b3-9fe3-4b27d3e41771@g4g2000pbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340617139 24530 80.91.229.3 (25 Jun 2012 09:38:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rusi Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 11:38:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sj5l3-0006MU-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:38:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sj5l3-0001ca-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:38:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sj5kq-0001cA-Sh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:38:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sj5km-0003g1-7w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ee0-f41.google.com ([74.125.83.41]:44480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sj5kl-0003fq-VA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:38:40 -0400 Original-Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so1233782eek.0 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:38:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tJftLvPnB1Y8jgpEfCYUy8FF7Nmxw4EEUWy9D65Mgy4=; b=0KwXtLgRu6cDCVUl+e7B61LFCxspsblW2flL4XQYl2MQKEATDllVPXmzhgRXW7tS73 f3S8iZpMIVFC6SckDYzkRefHCxitMqf2GOb0Q8IpJuhqI0NLoVvTpoQB32y+GC9penON HwDmW7A3ow/FladJ4hZxIDTGG2edWN1S0iJYljmEzxLMLVmyAG/2anTGQaFsbpid/cWe 6dPhiyIVYk0EUwFi8ApaRMZClJI2TvFcEycx/hcXoFpNnzicDYUDKE+Q8GeL2He6NtUn bqonvvTz/q8mxe4GTkniyOxg1klWxJqODRgwqdB9h1IZEOibR8HAE+Atr/7iB7/3JYSu hl0g== Original-Received: by 10.14.28.202 with SMTP id g50mr2197519eea.167.1340617117855; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.14.194.67 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:38:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7d431a11-f7fb-42b3-9fe3-4b27d3e41771@g4g2000pbn.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.83.41 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:85451 Archived-At: On 25 June 2012 03:58, rusi wrote: > On Jun 25, 4:19=A0am, James Freer wrote: > >> What do i use at present while i'm still trying to get used to vim or >> emacs - pico for email and bluefish. Both vim and emacs development >> have gone down strange routes and yet both are popular. >> >> james > > Ok James lets see if we can get you off the ground with emacs. > To start with are you on linux? If not whats your OS? > Next whats your emacs version? To find out do M-x emacs-version RETURN > where M-x is emacs-funnyspeak for Alt-x or Escape-x. > Next whats in your init file? Beginners are usually recommended to > use .emacs (note the .) > I recommend .emacs.d/init.el > If all this is trivial to you please excuse; no intent to be > patronizing here; just dont know at what level you are stuck Rusi I really appreciate your reply and offer of help. At present i've got to get a car sorted out so i'll leave it for a couple of days and then i can be focussed and look these things up. thanks james