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unni krishnan <gnu_talk@yahoo.co.in> writes:
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > i am a new user (student) of emacs.how can i
> > do syntax coloring in emacs?
> >
> >It's simply, just type:
> >M-x global-font-lock-mode
> >If you don't have the Meta key (alt should be equal to Meta), you can
> >type ESC-x global-font-lock-mode
> >To make permanent this configuration, you must edit the .emacs file and
> >insert the following line
> >(global-font-lock-mode 1)
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> syntax coloring is not working.
What version of emacs are you using?
Are you using it in X or the console (emacs only supports colors on
text only terminals since version 21)?
> thanks for response. i am using a linux 7.2
There is no such thing. Linux is the kernel, the current bleeding edge
is around 2.5.36. You must be using a distribution of Linux and some
other free software, possibly Red Hat, Mandrake or Slackware.
> i have typed the command
>
> M-x global-font-lock-mode
>
> but the result is
>
> "global font lock mode disabled"
That would indicate that it was already enabled, and that you disabled
it. What happens if you run M-x global-font-lock-mode again?
What are you using highlighting for? If you open a text file (.txt)
there (obviously) won't be any highlighting by default. What happens
if you open a C source file (.c)?
Finally emacs comes with excellent online documentation. Please take
the time to familiarize yourself with it.
Choose read the emacs manual from the help submenu.
C-h i
will get you into info which should have documentation for many of the
programs on your computer. Move the cursor down to emacs and then
press enter.
Only a few commands are enough to use info:
'Enter' follows a link'
'u' moves up to a higher level.
'l' goes back to the last place you were at.
That should be enough to get started.
Bijan
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On 23 Dec 2002 12:44:22 -0800, lng2@spray.se (Lars Gustafsson) wrote:
>I have a Logitech mouse with a wheel. I have configured it to function
>as the backward key on my Internet browser. Always when I use the
>Emacs manual or when I open a directory and want to choose a file to
>open I have to use the return key to make my choice. How do I make
>mouse button No. 2 work so I don't have to use the return key all the
>time.
>
>Thankful for answers, Lars
What operating system are you running on? If MS Windows, your mouse
driver may have an advanced tab where you can turn off wheel support
for specific programs. If you turn off wheel support for Emacs, that
may work (Emacs contains its own wheel support so the wheel should
still work as a wheel!).
Best Regards
John McCabe
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unni krishnan <gnu_talk@yahoo.co.in> writes:
> syntax coloring is not working.
> thanks for response. i am using a linux 7.2
>
> i have typed the command
>
> M-x global-font-lock-mode
>
> but the result is
>
> "global font lock mode disabled"
This means that global font lock mode was enabled before you used the
command. The command toggles the mode.
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> Avi Purkayastha <avijit@tacc.utexas.edu> writes:
> I downloaded and installed GNU emacs v21.3.50 binary(not the terminal
> emacs that comes with OS X) and have been succesful except for one
> MAJOR problem. I can copy-and-paste out of an emacs window into a
> terminal or file, but not the other way around. So the cmd-c and cmd-v
> commands yield nothing into an emacs window. Any solutions?
In emacs you paste with C-y (control-Y). I have no problem pasting into
emacs from Terminal or other applications.
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One thing I love in the minibuffer window is spacebar completion as an
alternative to tab completion. I use bash as my shell and it has most
of the simple emacs key bindings for CL editing, except it insists on
using tab as the completion key. Does anyone know how I can get it use
the spacebar like emacs does?
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Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
> One thing I love in the minibuffer window is spacebar completion as an
> alternative to tab completion. I use bash as my shell and it has most
> of the simple emacs key bindings for CL editing, except it insists on
> using tab as the completion key. Does anyone know how I can get it use
> the spacebar like emacs does?
>
As they say: "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it."
Are you sure you really want this? In emacs, one typically is entering
one "entity" at a time. When more than one entity is needed, you are
given seperate prompts. Because of this, the mini-buffer almost never
needs to have a space in it, so the spacebar can be used for
completion. Even in emacs this is often turned off though, e.g. with
`compile' and `grep' where the minibuffer can contain spaces. Can you
imagine the misery of trying to type
for x in *.f; do echo $x; done
if every time you hit the spacebar a whole set of completions came up?
--
Use of tools distinguishes Man from Beast. And UNIX users from WINDOZE lusers.
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Charles Herman <spam@no.spam> writes:
> I am using Emacs 21.2 on Win 2000. I want to be able to paste text
> using the middle button of the mouse. I have a Logitech 3-button mouse
> which I can set so that the middle button behaves like a middle button.
>
> But the middle button does not paste in Emacs, is there a line I need in
> my .emacs file to force this behaviour?
Have you set the behaviour of the middle mouse button in control panel
- mouse to "Middle button"?
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David Klein <dklein@bloombergREMOVETHISPART.com> writes:
> Because of this, the mini-buffer almost never needs to have a space in
> it, so the spacebar can be used for completion. Even in emacs this is
> often turned off though, e.g. with `compile' and `grep' where the
> minibuffer can contain spaces. Can you imagine the misery of trying to
> type
>
> for x in *.f; do echo $x; done
>
> if every time you hit the spacebar a whole set of completions came up?
Yes, you are right. Though in truth I rarely type the above, it would
be a PITA the once-in-6-months I did need to! I forgot emacs might be
applying its completion rules more selectively than I imagined. :-)
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Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
> One thing I love in the minibuffer window is spacebar completion as an
> alternative to tab completion. I use bash as my shell and it has most
> of the simple emacs key bindings for CL editing, except it insists on
> using tab as the completion key. Does anyone know how I can get it use
> the spacebar like emacs does?
I don't know how emacs uses spacebar for completion, but if you did
that in bash you would be able to type the space in:
emacs file.txt
because it would want to complete emacs to emacsclient or something.
Bijan
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Back in Oct Paul Cohen <paco@enea.se> wrote:
> Hi
>=20
> I want to do a Emacs regexp search and replace on a HTML file
containing
> patterns like this:
>=20
> <!--Test-->
> ...
> <!--End of Test-->
>=20
> Where "..." denotes a variable number of lines of HTML text.
>=20
> I want to search for all occurrences of the above pattern and then
> remove them from the HTML file!
>=20
> I've tried a number of variants without any success. For example the
> following regexp doesn't work:
>=20
> <!--Test-->\(.*\n\)*<!--End of Test-->
I replied that the only way I knew to do what he wanted to do was write
a function to do the search and replace and I supplied the function.
It turns out that there is a way to do what he was trying to do with a
regexp.
Information found at
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NonGreedyRegexp explains how to
do this for versions of Emacs prior to 21.1, and also hints that the
solution will not work in 21.1 and later but that the simpler Perl
construct will.
I just checked the Perl construct out in Emacs 21.2 and it works as
intimated.
Here is the regexp for version 21.1 or later that will match the lines
that Paul wanted to remove.
<!--Test-->
\(.*
\)*?[ ]*<!--End of Test-->
(Remember that the new lines must be entered with C-q C-j and that there
is a tab character and a space character inside the square brackets).
The ? that follows the second * makes that sub-expression non-greedy,
meaning it will match the shortest matching string rather than the
longest. The ? can follow the + special character to modify its
operation as well.
Happy emacsing and a happy new year to all
-_
J_)
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