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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: configuring the docbook major mode for GNU Emacs(Win NT)
"Lossner, Kevin" <KLossner@easy.de> writes: > Since Emacs is mentioned so often in this list as an editor, I > thought I'd take a look at it and try the configuration that Norm > Walsh created for editing docbook files. I'm a bit stuck at the > following instruction in the README file: > > >> 4. Add the elisp code in dot_emacs to your .emacs file. > > As far as I can tell there is no such file in the NT distribution of > Emacs. What's the equivalent in this context? Before going further with your configuration on Windows, you should probably read and follow Markus Hoenicka's step-by-step tutorial: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ntsgml.html Your .emacs file is a user-config file that goes in the directory you specify with your $HOME environment variable. It's not part of the distribution because it's meant to hold only personal customizations. You can create a .emacs file using any text editor (Emacs itself, Notepad, whatever) and save it in your $HOME directory. If you name/save the file using something other than the Windows file manager, you can call it .emacs. But the file manager won't let you create filenames that start with a dot, so I think you can call it _emacs instead, and Windows Emacs will still recognize it. For getting any serious work done on Windows, you might also want to consider installing Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/ If you've heard of the MKS Toolkit, Cygwin is the free/open-source alternative. In a nutshell, installing it gives you a standard UNIX bash shell and an big set of common utilities (grep, tar, gzip, etc.) and UNIX development tools that will run under Windows. It basically lets you interact with a Windows machine as if it were running UNIX. -- Michael Smith mailto:smith@xml-doc.org XML-Doc http://www.xml-doc.org/
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