newbie needs to be bailed out

[Kim Young]

Hello,

I am running Mac os x lion and I want to use emacs to try to write some shell 
scripts for work. I am new to emacs so I would like help with some very basic 
things.

1.      What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is provided 
with lion?

2.      How do I enable color highlighting for syntext?

3       How do I get a list of the command sequences that auto generate things 
like "for", "while" and "do" loops for   the various languages (C++, ruby, etc) 
I might use?

Thanks for any help you can give me.


John "Kim" Young
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