wex@wam.umd.edu (Richard Wexler) (07/19/90)
I've been around VM/CMS (and, of course, MS-DOS) for a while, but I'm relatively new to Unix and Emacs (true GNU, in this instance). (Oh, no! Here comes one of those real neophyte types again.) I'm trying to get Emacs to do what I like with only partial success. So far my .emacs file is tiny, but small as it is, there seems to be something wrong with it. This is what I've done: ;;;Set the text mode as the default mode. (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) ;;;Turn on justification for the text mode. (setq text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) ;;;Set the right margin at 65. (setq default-fill-column 65) Fundamentally, this the kind of syntax illustrated in The Waite Group's Unix Primer Plus, and it seems to work OK. But when I add ;;;Set tabs every 5. (setq tabs-stop-list '(5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50)) I get no result--at least not on the screen. That variable and quoted value came from my Comp Sci Center here. Is there a way to change the tab setting from the .emacs file that will show on the screen and remain in effect when the file is displayed elsewhere? Or should I learn to be content with the default tabs settings? BTW, no one here seems to be able to tell me the keystroke for toggling Emacs into typeover mode. I'm sure there must be one, since the program seems to have everything else imaginable. If you're reluctant to waste a post on such baby questions, please feel free to send me E-mail. Thanks for your attention. -- + Richard Wexler +-----+ 1-301-454-7616 (w); 1-301-779-6906 (h) +------------+ | Chairman, Musicology | Dept. of Music, U. Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 | | Department of Music | INTERNET: rw25@umail.umd.edu; BITNET: wexler@umdd | +----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+