Re: emacs new user.

[Colin S. Miller]

Moofar wrote:
> Your responses have been very welcome. Just knowing that there is an active
> forum on the internet makes a huge difference. I have been reading the help
> files and I know I just need to keep on reading and learning. 
>
> I do have one question that would just be very helpful to get me started. I
> am working on a file in C, xxx.c and the auto indentation feature is not
> working or not turned on. The c mode is enabled and other functions are
> working. I'm reading about the c mode options and options in general through
> in the documentation to figure it out, but an easy answer would be a huge
> help.

Moofar,

Adding this to your .emacs file might help

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook '(lambda ()
                                 (c-set-style "whitesmith")
                                 (turn-on-auto-fill)
                                 (turn-on-font-lock)
                                 (setq fill-column 77)
                                 (setq indent-tabs-mode nil)
                                 (flyspell-prog-mode)
                                ))


This changes c-mode to
1) Whitesmith indent style; this has the curly brackets on their own line,
and lined-up with the preceding control block, indent is the default of 4 
characters.

2) Autoindent is enabled; the next line will default to the correct indentation 
when you press enter.
3) Syntax highlighting is enabled
4) Code auto-wraps to the next line at 77 characters
5) Spaces are used instead of tab characters for indenting
6) Spell checking is enabled (if ispell/aspell is installed; it will be on unix 
systems but not MS-Windows systems)


This is for XEmacs; it should work on GNU Emacs, but I can't guarantee this.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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