From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 4: 7:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.retemail.es (smtp05.iddeo.es [62.81.186.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2D3C37B40A for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:07:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fxn@retemail.es) Received: from retemail.es ([62.174.22.101]) by smtp05.retemail.es (InterMail vM.5.01.03.02 201-253-122-118-102-20010403) with ESMTP id <20010815110711.EZXE166.smtp05.retemail.es@retemail.es> for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:07:11 +0200 Message-ID: <3B7A57E9.A8E0BA2F@retemail.es> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:07:21 +0200 From: "F. Xavier Noria" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs customization References: <20010815061022.82455.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Newbie wrote: > Where can I find an easy to understand tutorial or how-to that describes > how to customize emacs. It is no longer necessary to write Elisp to customize Emacs, M-x customize is your friend. I think you are right about the docs. The full customization of the editor has so much possibilities that needs to be explained along the GNU Emacs Manual. That's why one has M-x customize for simple preferences. If one wants something further (I would like that when I open a file Emacs checks whether it belongs to a CVS repository and, in that case, if I have and old version ask whether I want to update it), which is the point of Elisp, one needs to know more things. One way to learn is to read other's .emacs ---for instance from www.dotemacs.de or www.dotfiles.com--- study the GNU Emacs Manual and play with Elisp. Read an ask in Usenet as well, comp.emacs is very active. I think it's worth the effort. -- fxn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message