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Re: .emacs


From: gebser
Subject: Re: .emacs
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 06:36:11 -0500 (EST)

You should tell us which operating system you are using.  Your 
.emacs file will be in different locations depending upon the OS on 
which it is installed.

Doing "C-h v user-init-file RETURN" should return the name of the file 
you're looking for.


hth,
ken

Oodini at 22:59 (UTC+0100) on Fri, 27 Dec 2002 said:

= Hello,
= 
= I am reading "Programmiong with GNU tools", and so I am discovering Unix.
= 
= They say in the book that I am supposed to find in my user directory the 
= file .emacs. It wasn't there. So I created it and put these lines inside:
= 
= (setq c-indent-level 5)
= (setq c-continued-statement-offset 5)
= (setq c-argdecl-indent 0)
= (setq c-brace-offset -5)
= (setq c-label-offset -5)
= 
= I don't know yet EMacs, but I suppose that with this file, indents must 
= be 5 characters when I am in C mode. But that doesn't work...
= 
= PLease confirm the supposed behaviour of EMacs with this setup.
= 
= 




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