Rajesh, All I can offer you is an Info built with the Cygwin toolset, although that also runs in a DOS box. But what's wrong with a DOS box anyway? Cheers, ...
Sprenger, Karel
Karel.Sprenger@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:54 am
10481
Just starting with emacs: 26: How do I set up a .emacs file properly? See "Init File" in the on-line manual. I've been through the tutorial and checked the...
Dave Cheseldine
d.cheseldine@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:07 am
10482
... [snip] ... Hi, Thanks for that Kevin, its a nice idea - but it doesn't completely solve the problem, as the onus is still on me to call the function. ...
Steve Kemp
skx@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:17 am
10483
... I'm not sure this fixes your problem, but I found a similar problem with speedbar and PC style drive letters, which the following fixes. I did file a bug...
andy.ling@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:34 am
10484
... It's what you get by doing C-h i or via the Help menu. This should give you a menu of topics. Select Emacs by typing mEmacs then mInit File. The command...
Dr Francis J. Wright
F.J.Wright@...
Feb 1, 2000 11:53 am
10485
I want to make the 'tab' as 4 spaces. How do I do that? Rajesh J Advani ~*Only Dreams Come True*~...
Rajesh J Advani
rajesh.jag@...
Feb 1, 2000 12:20 pm
10486
Have you tried C-h i ? Rajesh J Advani ~*Only Dreams Come True*~...
Rajesh J Advani
rajesh.jag@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:35 pm
10487
... (setq-default tab-width 4) -- With regards, Roman....
Roman Belenov
roman@...
Feb 1, 2000 1:38 pm
10488
Actually, if you want to really use the help facilities in Emacs effectively, go through the info tutorial. C-h i then mInfo. Then follow through their...
Boyer,Galen
gboyer@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:04 pm
10489
Setting the variable, tab-width = 4 will make the tab go out 4 spaces. But if you look at it through another tool, (ie notepad) you get the regular tab. If...
Boyer,Galen
gboyer@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:13 pm
10490
... I do not known how to make a tab 4 spaces but you can set tab-width on your .emacs (setq tab-width 4) and then select the all buffer and untabify it...
Sebastiao Alves Barata
sab@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:22 pm
10491
... You can cause the tab _key_ to move the cursor four spaces by changing your tab stops with M-x edit-tab-stops. -- Robert Mecklenburg Speed Dial:...
Robert W Mecklenburg
mecklen@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:39 pm
10492
... Forgot to tell how to set the hook (defun untabify-on-exit () "untabify the buffer before writing it to disk" ;; untabify the buffer (untabify (point-min)...
Sebastiao Alves Barata
sab@...
Feb 1, 2000 3:52 pm
10493
... Is there a way to automate that in the .emacs file? Alan Wolfson Senior Consultant MDL Information Systems alanw@......
Alan Wolfson
alanw@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:17 pm
10494
... n> Is there a way to automate that in the .emacs file? File: emacs, Node: Tab Stops, Next: Just Spaces, Prev: Indentation Commands, Up: Indentation ...
Robert W Mecklenburg
mecklen@...
Feb 1, 2000 5:19 pm
10495
This will do it... (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) ; use spaces (not tabs) for indenting Dave Gallucci ... From: Sebastiao Alves Barata...
Gallucci, David
David.Gallucci@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:04 pm
10496
... In your .emacs: (setq tab-width 4) It can also be specified per-buffer (if you set tab-width manually after opening a file for example): M-x set-variable...
Theodore Jump
tjump@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:17 pm
10497
Thanks for all the replies regarding the online manual. I've managed to get coloured tags in html using both the .emacs file method and the typing into...
Dave Cheseldine
d.cheseldine@...
Feb 1, 2000 6:51 pm
10498
Rajesh, I know I probably *should* get used to reading info in Emacs, but I like a dedicated window for info. I like to use Axel Boldt's tkinfo program: ...
Rob Davenport
rob.davenport@...
Feb 1, 2000 7:43 pm
10499
Hm, nope. Your patch was not applied for 20.5, nor does it fix the bug. I'll look into it. The really strange thing is the translation to "C://". When would...
Charlie Reiman
creiman@...
Feb 1, 2000 7:46 pm
10500
We have a large source base, with code written by several people in different styles (using different editors and "integrated GUIs" - you know which I'm...
Shankar Unni
shankar@...
Feb 1, 2000 8:03 pm
10501
RMS recommends never changing tab size. From RMS in source code for whitespace.el on the proper use of tabs: "A summary of whitespaces and what this library...
Paul Berg
PaulB@...
Feb 1, 2000 8:37 pm
10502
Alan> Is there a way to automate that in the .emacs file? Robert> You can specify the tab stops used by `M-i'. They are Robert> stored in a variable called...
Robert W Mecklenburg
mecklen@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:49 pm
10503
already know how to do that manually. Unfortunately, that didn't answer the question that I asked, namely, how does one automatically do a "M-x ...
Alan Wolfson
alanw@...
Feb 1, 2000 9:50 pm
10504
I have a file that I suspect is unicode text. Every other character is a '^@'. When I look at the file in hexl-mode, every other byte pair has a value of 00....
Malcolm Ferguson
Malcolm_Ferguson@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:50 am
10505
... Thanks for the 'Info' !!! ... Why not try out ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/ They have DOS ports for practically anything worth using. Rajesh...
Rajesh J Advani
rajesh.jag@...
Feb 2, 2000 3:55 am
10506
... But spaces take up too much space. I need to use Tabs only, so that any other editor that understands a Tab as 4 characters long, will show me the file in...
Rajesh J Advani
rajesh.jag@...
Feb 2, 2000 4:01 am
10507
for download at http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/ JDE-2.1.6beta17 Release Notes ============================= * Added Processes->Listen commands to the JDEBug menu. ...
Paul Kinnucan
paulk@...
Feb 2, 2000 6:44 am
10508
I want to add my own items (functions) to the HTML mode menubar. How do I do this? Also how do I find out what other facilities are available in any given ...
Rajesh J Advani
rajesh.jag@...
Feb 2, 2000 9:54 am
10509
Html mode or html-helper-mode ? Gian Uberto Lauri lauri@......
