On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Dale Snell wrote: > You didn't? Do you perchance have a ~/.emacs file? That's the same thing > as the init.el. I like having the init file in ~/.emacs.d, since I can > keep all of my Emacs stuff in the same directory.
Dale, Yes, there's always been ~/.emacs. Now I'll move that command back to that file and remove the extraneous one. > BTW, you might want to put this in your init file: > > ;;; Make text-mode the default major mode. > (setq-default major-mode 'text-mode) That's already in ~/.emacs, along with all the other tweaks for R, Python, and so on. > There's a number of other things you might like in your init file: > > ;;; if a file doesn't end with a newline, ask: > (setq require-final-newline 'query) In ~/.emacs is the command to end each file with a newline. > ;;; New in Emacs 24! Electric-mode everywhere! Oh. Happy. Joy. > ;;; Turn it freaking OFF. Grump. Get offa my lawn, ya damn kids! > (setq electric-indent-mode nil) Is this what indents all lines if the first one is indented? If so, I'll certainly turn that off here. > A note about the Custom setting, above. "Custom" refers the Emacs > "Customize" facility. You can change all sorts of things with it, to > configure Emacs the way you like it. However, when you do so, Emacs sticks > a block of nigh-unreadable ELisp code at the end of your init file. The > more you customize, the bigger the block gets, and the less readable. > Giving Emacs a place to put it keeps your init file smaller and neater. I've customized lightly. Perhaps there's more that would benefit me so when there's time and opportunity I'll look more closely. Otherwise, it's worked find for years. > Anyhoo, I've babbled at you enough. Enjoy! Thanks very much, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
