I forgot to mention that if you want to put your .el files into a separate folder, you should add the following to your .emacs file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/my_emacs_stuff") Regards Manohar On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Manohar Vanga <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Naresh, > > Here's a great tutorial on how to do it: > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ModeTutorial > > Emacs has a mind boggling number of modes readily available so in most > cases you won't have to write one from ground up. Take a look at > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryModes for a list of modes > available. > > To install a new mode you can try the following: > > C-h v load-path > > See the directories there and put your .el file into one of those > directories. You can add something like the following in to your ~/.emacs > file so that the mode is loaded automatically: > > ;; for HTML files > (autoload 'html-mode "html-mode" "HTML mode" t) > (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.html$" . html-mode)) > auto-mode-alist)) > > Pretty useful :-) > > Regards > Manohar > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Raja <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> > >>> > I am currently working on providing PDF versions of the newsletter but >>> it >>> > will not be available immediately. I write the newsletter directly in >>> HTML >>> > in emacs so it is a little harder to move it over to PDF. Perhaps in >>> the >>> > future, I can make use of typesetting toolkits like LaTeX (my >>> experience >>> > with it is scanty at best). >>> > >>> >>> >> > >>> >> > Regards >>> >> > Manohar Vanga >>> >> >> hey Manohar! >> >> this could be off-topic but can you please tell me how to install a new >> mode in emacs. I assume one needs to have the .el file or whatever and then >> modify some config file, but i'm not sure how this works. >> >> thanks >> raja >> >> >
