Programming Tutorials (1 of 4): Setting up Emacs

[crazililalice]

yes it worked!!

[animeisart1]

got an updated vers. of this tut?



[liloprint]

Hi snietfeld,

I installed emacs on winXp and i got the next error when i start it:

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading `c:/Work/emacs/home/.emacs':

error: Font `-*-fixedsysttf-*-*-*-*-15-*-*­-*-*-*-*-*' is not defined

any idea why.

thanks.

[poojkhgf]

I read that Xemacs had more enhancement for use on a windows system so I installed that and am very happy with it. The commands are the same.

[Lostpanda123]

Great tut. Thanks a lot for sharing the info ;)

[BacklTrack]

Erg, emacs on windows isn't even worth it. Without the *nix programming tools it loses alot of power. I would just suggest something along the lines of Komodo Edit for windows.

[1611kjvav]

Hello snietfeld, Thanks for the help with the install and the use of your .emacs file.

I can see your preferences coming up in the editor, but the "find file" window at bottom does not see the files and/or subdirs when I hit the spacebar. I tried changing the direction of the slashes to opposite direction in the evironment variable Home, still with no spacebar file/folder recogition. If I simply type a file name from the /emacs dir, for ex., it recognizes and opens the file, but no fill-in

[indgiu]

omg all of that just to install it? I don't want to imagine what is required to use it

[Hermetiqa]

You appear to have a virus on your computer, called "Microsoft Windows".

Thankfully, this virus is easy to remove. For more information, please visit GNUdotORG

[BrightnessKnight]

Hi snietfeld.

I'm having a problem with the loading of the preferences.

As I open the Emacs i loads black and all but gives out an error that says (resumidly): "File error: Cannot open load file, d:/Apps/emacs/home/include/lis­p/myfontlock.el"

Guess i'd have to change a directory but i can't find wich. I did change the ones you mention on the video.

Hope you can help  BK

[snietfeld]

You'll probably have to go into the .emacs config file and change the reference to "d:/Apps/emacs/home/include/li­s p/myfontlock.el" to reflect your directory structure. That is, change it to point to wherever myfontlock.el is on your computer. Hope that helps.

[petux7]

@BrightnessKnight Simple way to remedy your problem is to install linux

[petux7]

Răspundeţi la acest videoclip... It's imposible to work well emacs on windows because emacs can't

integrate in windows system

What you can use from emacs on windows it's a simple editor but you must know that emacs is more than an

editor

emacs is logical that not work on Windows.......................­.is the hacker's editor

[breakink]

thanks for saving me hours of reading and setup time!

[arseniyt]

HOME directory for emacs is "c:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Application Data" so one can put '.emacs' there

[snietfeld]

You can, but once you get the hang of it you'll be customizing emacs a lot, and it's more convenient to keep all your emacs files together. That way if you want to setup your flavor of emacs on another computer, all you have to do is copy your emacs folder over and update your paths.

[Borbuster]

It's pronounced like g-new not g-n-u. And emacs is way better than vim. This is from someone who thought vim was better for ages.

[Nextstopearth]

what makes it better? I'm not really liking having to hold ctrl and/or alt for everything.

[Borbuster]

The first thing that sold me was major modes with automatic code indentation and stuff, there's spell checking, integration with version control systems... and all of this I was able to discover and set up within a few days of using emacs, compared to a year using vi. The absolute best thing is the hacking, though... you can hack emacs with itself, with emacs lisp. You can try your hacks without restarting or recompiling emacs. This is a level of customisation unseen anywhere else.

[orgthingy]

nice.. but vim is still better :P