From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 4:45: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4CE137B403 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 85415 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2001 11:44:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.24762.196847.277544@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:44:58 -0500 To: Bsd Newbie Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emacs customization In-Reply-To: <97961687@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 types: > Where can I find an easy to understand tutorial or how-to that describes > how to customize emacs. > I want to change the colors, allow text coloring for html and perl as well > as indentation and all that nice stuff. I don't know which emacs you are using, but Xemacs has all that stuff in the menus. If you don't have such in your version, you might try installing the xemacs port instead. Of course, how you customize those packages depends on which html/perl/etc. editing package you are using. > I believe this has something to do with an .emacs or site-start.el file. > I know nothing about lisp... and I simply need a quick way to customize > emacs to make it more conducive to what I'm doing. Considering that both .emacs and site-start.el are lisp files, you're going to have to learn some elisp in order to customize emacs using those files. You need to find the lisp variables that control those things, then add lisp code to .emacs to set them. Finding the variables is the interesting part. The apropos command, the info command, and wading through the lisp sources are all useful for that. Finally, the only tutorial I've seen on configuring emacs is from the FreeBSD developers handbook at . After the intro it talks about configuring emacs, though it's not clear how useful it is. -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message