From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jai Dayal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:54:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f46d04478603b21f9804b5bc8ae9 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325721304 20507 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 23:55:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 23:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Kim Young Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 00:55:01 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 1Riafc-0001sJ-EJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:55:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53920 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Riafb-0007IG-Ot for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:54:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:45860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiafW-0007Hy-UK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:54:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiafV-0000B0-ES for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:54:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-tul01m020-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:56005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiafV-0000Au-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:54:53 -0500 Original-Received: by obcwo8 with SMTP id wo8so17609997obc.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:54:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=f9coIvv8n7LvJTM+zYojyOUJR6dXBNRwGk660bq6mLY=; b=ZMgxHJH8Alx6vnhE2CLk9GQ1L1jdyO5PQKSI1cnuUJKGsZfNE6CE/y/wzXXavipZg+ 9AM46eOh0rre+XhNJwTpw2Y1Au38b2R4pBYBuV5f0ooyvkNGYuBxIcJgjYEzHdrxI6oe xJpCxEqCd2vi3H7+4JKSBGHFGZwuGnV/gccWg= Original-Received: by 10.182.117.8 with SMTP id ka8mr14224665obb.73.1325721292250; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:54:52 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.182.51.197 with HTTP; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:54:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.169 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:83332 Archived-At: --f46d04478603b21f9804b5bc8ae9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 1) in terminal type, emacs --version 2) in emacs, type "M-x" and then type global-font-lock-mode M stands for "meta" and is generally the ALT key. 3) what the other guy said On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Kim Young wrote: > 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 > > > > > --f46d04478603b21f9804b5bc8ae9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 1) in terminal type, emacs --version

2) in emacs, type "M-x&quo= t; and then type global-font-lock-mode=A0 M stands for "meta" and= is generally the ALT key.

3) what the other guy said

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Kim Young <kimyoung@me.com> wrote:
Hello,

I am running Mac os x lion and I want to use emacs to try to write some she= ll scripts for work. I am new to emacs so I would like help with some very = basic things.

1. =A0 =A0 =A0What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is= provided with lion?

2. =A0 =A0 =A0How do I enable color highlighting for syntext?

3 =A0 =A0 =A0 How do I get a list of the command sequences that auto genera= te things like "for", "while" and "do" loops = for =A0 the various languages (C++, ruby, etc) I might use?

Thanks for any help you can give me.


John "Kim" Young
1663 71st =A0Street
Brooklyn, NY =A0 11204
(917) 620-5562<= /a>
kimyoung@mac.com





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