Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 15:03:25 -0300 From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak Subject: Re: Colors in Emacs To: Michael Schuster cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Michael Schuster wrote: > Gruess Euch! > > I've read several times discussions about emacs in this group, and so > I've downloaded it. > I wanted to run the C/C++ hilighted mode (which was the reason for > downloading EMACS 19.30 ) but I got two problems: > > 1. I've copied the _EXAMPLE -file to my emacs/bin directory to an > _EMACS file, but there was no difference when envoking emacs.(I've > changed the path to the bin-directory before). Also, if I write > some nonsens in the _EMACS -File, emacs seems to be unimpressed > and doesn't bring any error (... what a pitty no error...) The place the _emacs is supposed to be installed is in your "~/home" directory which under MS-DOG must be pointed manually by a environment variable like SET HOME=C:\EMACS. I've read a doc of earlier version of Emacs ported to MS-DOG (19.28 I think which said the binary would look to the PARENT directory for the _emacs file. And last but not the least it is always possible to invoke Emacs with a -l [some_dir]/_emacs and it will use the script you ask for (is the setup we use here to cope with the variyng taste among users). A explanation of it can be found in the info file about Emacs under "invoking Emacs". > 2. The Font-lock-mode choosen manually with the [nonDOS-like] M-x > -key is hilighting only some words like "include" but not "for" or > "if) > For the font-lock-mode to work in full you must set a hook for it, in the example _EXAMPLE you cited there is some hints. If you (or anybody) needing more details, we can post a more thorough procedure; but it can be found also in the info file under "customizing Emacs". > I know that this is perhaps not quite the right group for this mail, but I don't > know where to mail else. > > Michi > According to Eli, at least for the DJGPP ported version, it is OK to post here questions about Emacs! Cheers,