mlittman@WIND.BELLCORE.COM (Michael Littman) (10/14/88)
Thanks! ...to all who sent responses to me about administerin emacs. Not only did your messages provide valuable information (which I have put to use) but they also reassured me that I'm not working in a vacuum. If someone here comes to me with emacs problem that I can't answer, I have someplace to turn. And on that note... does anyone know about NeWS support for emacs? I think we the ability to use the mouse in emacs on our suns under SunTools, XWindows and mgr. Has anyone tackled the problem of getting NeWS to work? Thanks!! -MSL
mlittman@WIND.BELLCORE.COM (Michael Littman) (10/21/88)
Hi all, A few weeks ago I sent a message asking some questions to get me started in administering Emacs. People have asked me to summarize so here goes: * How do you get emacs to load site specific files? => Use site-load.el and site-init.el when compiling emacs. => Use default.el for run time changes (sort of a global .emacs file). * How does one learn to program in emacs lisp? => Learn Lisp (Touretzky or Winston and Horne). => Read the code in $EMACS/lisp (try simple.el for starters). => Emacs Lisp manual via anonymous ftp from a.cs.uiuc.edu in ~ftp/pub/gnuemacs/elisp. Get the README file first. => Experiment. * Is there any way to tell rnews to read remote news (stored on another machine)? => Remote mount the other machine. => Get GNUWS . * How do you edit a remote file? => Use "ftp-find-file" and "ftp-write-file" (standard emacs commands). => I am working on simpler functions that use rcp to do the transfer. * How do you edit a compressed file? => I now have a copy of "z-mode.el" for doing this. I'll send it if anyone wants. => I'm working on my own which will save the file as compressed also. To help myself to learn emacs lisp better, I wrote a function called "big" which allows you to type in big letters: # ### # # ##### ##### # # ### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ### # ##### # ### # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ### # # ##### # # # ### #### # If anyone wants it as an example of a simple-minded function (or just for fun) let me know. -MSL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael S. Littman (MSL) +==> "An evening without chocolate... mlittman@Bellcore.COM is like an afternoon without chocolate- only later!" ((lambda (x) (list (eval x) (list (quote quote) x))) (quote (quote (lambda (x) (list (eval x) (list (quote quote) x))))))