Debra Cameron - Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition

We say "more or less" because at the time we went to press, you still needed to grab the source from a separate site. That difference should eventually disappear as well.

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You can still run this new Emacs as a plain Terminal app with the -nwcommand-line argument (type emacs -nw.)

We found this hint on John Schneider's web page called "Getting Mac OS X.3 to Behave Almost Like My Linux Boxes" (http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~schneidj/mac-os-x-10.3.html).

Okay, okay. If you want to build it on Windows, you certainly can. We suggest grabbing the various development tools like makeand gccfrom the Cygwin project (http://www.cygwin.com) and then following the Unix build instructions.

If you are running an older version of Emacs and want this functionality, visit http://www.cua.dk/emacs.html to download and install CUA mode.

This binary is also available from this book's web site, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnu3.

These command names are case-sensitive. For example, completion won't find them if you type them with a lowercase i.

You can't just press Tabwithout typing the pbecause the current and parent directories, named . and .. , respectively, are also file choices. Normally, Emacs runs diredwhen you visit a file that's a directory.

For example, if you make changes to your .emacs file regularly, you will appreciate that M-x eval-cis an acceptable prefix for M-x eval-current-buffer.

Emacs Lisp mode is also invoked for files named .emacs or _emacs . In the default configuration, Lisp Interaction mode is used by the initial *scratch*buffer.

See Chapter 8for an extensive discussion of working with markup languages in Emacs.

Some of these will be useful on Windows only if you've installed a Unix compatibility package like Cygwin (see http://www.cygwin.com).