For Perl, definitely install and use cperl-mode, which will let you do lots of work with brace matching and indenting. I like syntax highlighting, but you can always turn it off by not invoking global-font-lock-mode.
Best, Andy ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Argh, how many times have I attempted this move! > > I'd like to make a push to move to XEmacs as my main editor (from a > Windows editor Program File Editor). It's hard to move to a new editor > with a large learning curve when there's work to be done. > > I edit mostly C and Perl code. > > I'm looking for tips to help in my change over. > > To keep this somewhat on-topic (e.g. debian), I've installed > > $ dpkg -l | grep emacs > ii emacsen-common 1.4.15 Common facilities for all emacsen. > ii xemacs21 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink > ii xemacs21-bases 2002.03.29-1 Editor and kitchen sink -- compiled elisp su > ii xemacs21-bin 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- support binaries > ii xemacs21-nomul 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule binary > ii xemacs21-suppo 21.4.6-8 Editor and kitchen sink -- architecture inde > > is there anything else I should install for editing C and Perl? > > There's lots of Emacs tutorials found by Google. Any recommendations on > ones you might have found most useful? > > The tips I need to help me start using Emacs are in basic configuration > (these are mostly common functions of my old editor that I can't live > without): > > - I don't want long lines to wrap with the U-turn arrow at the end, I want > a scroll bar. > > - I want tab to insert spaces instead of tabs, and each indent is to the > next 4 char column. > > - I'm not a fan of syntax highlighting. Maybe I should be. > > - I need to be able to find matching braces (find the start of end of the > current block) > > - I need to be able to indent and un-indent a block of text. > > - Auto-indent/un-indent, of course, plus smart indenting when I open a new > brace. > > > - How do I get my button 4 and 5 to scroll (the mouse wheel works in other > programs)? > > - I'd like to have black on white text, and a smaller font in the buffers. > > Is is sacrilegious to want the cut/copy/paste keys to be mapped to the > common C-c C-x and C-v keys? I guess that would break a lot in emacs. > > > > -- > Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
