Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 11, 2006 04:09 PM
Emacs offers a "customize" interface, also available via various menu entries. It manages your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.emacs file on its own, and it makes sure that all variables are customized to expressions of the correct type, by offering you templates for editing them.
Hunting around on the web for information is certainly a bad idea in many cases. Emacs comes with its own Emacs manual which is well-organized, up-to-date and coherent.
The Emacs Lisp manual and the Emacs Lisp tutorial (which will come included with Emacs 22, but have been available from the FSF for a long time) are definitely the canonical reference to use.
One frequent occurence on the Emacs help list is cleaning up the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.emacs file of newbies with problems from accumulated crap from "web wisdom" and colleagues that, if at all, made remote sense 10 years ago, but breaks things nowadays.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 11, 2006 04:09 PMHunting around on the web for information is certainly a bad idea in many cases. Emacs comes with its own Emacs manual which is well-organized, up-to-date and coherent.
The Emacs Lisp manual and the Emacs Lisp tutorial (which will come included with Emacs 22, but have been available from the FSF for a long time) are definitely the canonical reference to use.
One frequent occurence on the Emacs help list is cleaning up the<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.emacs file of newbies with problems from accumulated crap from "web wisdom" and colleagues that, if at all, made remote sense 10 years ago, but breaks things nowadays.
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