Emacs Info

John A. Turner

September 15, 1998

I started using GNU Emacs around 1985, but switched to XEmacs around 1992 (when it was known as Lucid Emacs). In addition to editing, I use XEmacs to read mail, and as a file browser, a terminal (shell) window, a diff/merge tool, an interface to CVS, and many other things.

What can be found here:

• a collection of Emacs links

• a gzipped tar file of my setup files, which should work with most recent versions of XEmacs:
  • copy any Emacs-related dotfiles (.emacs, .vm, .gnus, etc.) to a safe place

  • uncompress the tar file (e.g.gunzip xemacs-setup.tar.gz)

  • untar in your home directory (e.g.cd ; tar xvf xemacs-setup.tar)

  • creates subdirectory named Emacs containing everything needed

  • cd into that subdirectory and do gmake links to create links for .emacs, .vm, etc. in home directory

  • read comments in .emacs, .gnus, and .vm and set environment variables as necessary

  • IMPORTANT: read and modify .emacs-personal.el (you must change some things in this file!)

• screen shots of my setup

• the XEmacs Lisp Reference