> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
Having just read it, I don't think it answers all, or even
most of his questions.
> : Is it possible to configure emacs to allow me to insert
> : tabs within a line,
I didn't see this in the C/C++ or Language Modes sections.
But it's been answered by someone on the list.
> : 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)
C-x <del> is backward-kill-sentence. It's as close as I
could find.
> : 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?
Yes, they're downloadable off of Sun's website.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/download-docs.html
> : 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?
Can't help you here.
> : 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.
I completely agree that "Learning GNU Emacs" is a perfect
book for this. And possibly "Programming GNU Emacs", which
I don't have, but will probably pick up sometime soon.
> : 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?
C-x C-e (aka eval-current-buffer)
Book: 2/6 questions.
Me: 1/6 questions.
Well, I guess that it's not too bad. ;)
Later,
Blake.
