Martin,
O'Reilley has a fine book called Learning GNU Emacs. Combined with
emacs' own excellent tutorial and info pages, it should answer all
of your questions and a few you haven't thought of yet.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnu2/
ISBN # 1-56592-152-6
Eric
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin Kift" writes:
: Hi,
:
: I'm new to emacs and JDE, and am currently getting to grips with emacs
: before moving onto master the lovely looking
:
: JDE. So far things are going well, but one aspect is annoying me, and thats
: code placement / tabs.
:
: To explain, consider the following block of code:
:
: void someFunction()
: {
: int iVariableA = 0; // Variable A
: long lVariableB = 0; // Variable B
: String sString = new String("Hello"); // String
:
: // Code follows...
: }
:
: This is how I am currently forced to type it in, with emacs auto-code
: formatting. Whilst I love the autoformatting, its a pain how it goes beyond
: controlling not just where a line starts, but everything else (at least it
: does on my current setup). I would prefer to be able to format the code like
: this:
:
: void someFunction()
: {
: int iVariableA = 0; // Variable A
: long lVariableB = 0; // Variable B
: String sString = new String("Hello"); // String
:
: // Code follows...
: }
:
: using tabs to column-ise the code, making it more readable.
:
: Is it possible to configure emacs to allow me to insert tabs within a line,
: but still let it autoformat the starts of the line? I'm sure it must be,
: since if I create the code above (second example) within another editor and
: import it into emacs, and then run autoformat, it doesn't remove my mid-line
: tabs.
:
: Oh, on a more trival note, maybe someone could offer some help on the
: following items:
:
: 1. I know you can delete from cursor to the end of a line, but can you
: delete from the cursor to the start of a line? (which you can do in a brief
: editor)
:
: 2. I noticed that the latest JDE has help at point functionality, but the
: docs say it needs jdk documentation in javadoc format I believe? Are these
: downloadable, or do they have to be generated somehow? Also, is it possible
: to get JDK to reference the jdk HTML's instead?
:
: 3. For various reasons I cannot install the cygwin unix tools, so this means
: I'm left without grep functionality (and probably other things too). This is
: tricky obviously. I'm running NT, which has a find command, and I was
: wondering if anyone has customised their emacs to use this command, assuming
: that its possible of course?
:
: 4. Is there an emails mailing list? Also, are there any good guides /
: tutorials beyond the ones that come with emacs, particularly on the .emacs
: file and its possibilities.
:
: 5. When I edit the .emacs file, is there anyway of getting emacs to realise
: the changes without shutting it down, or is that the only options?
:
: Thanks for your help, please excuse the simple questions (which are mostly
: emacs questions I know), but as I say I'm new to emacs and JDE, and its a
: big hurdle to climb, but fun!
:
: Martin Kift
:
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