X-pop3-spooler: POP3MAIL 2.1.0 b 4 980420 -bs- To: Vincent Diepeveen Cc: beastium-list AT Desk DOT nl Subject: Re: advanced question about editting source for compilers References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 32 DOT 19980711235950 DOT 0098ea50 AT xs4all DOT nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Hannu Koivisto Date: 13 Jul 1998 14:48:48 +0300 In-Reply-To: Vincent Diepeveen's message of "Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:59:52 +0100" Message-ID: <87iul2c6ov.fsf@quasar.vvf.fi> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: Marc Lehmann Status: RO Content-Length: 1771 Lines: 38 Vincent Diepeveen writes: | Now i'm editting in good old emacs, and i see my text all in the same color. | | How can i see all my sources in color with linux using emacs? | I know it's theoretically possible with emacs, but i'm not willing to learn | emacs programming, probably one of you guys who program fulltime under linux It's more than theoretically possible and it for sure doesn't require any emacs programming. I understand that you don't want to learn elisp programming, but you should at least learn to do basic configurations to your emacs. The on-line documentation is really good and you are going to need it eventually. If you have a problem with the documentation, ask on some emacs newsgroup about it or make a bugreport. Syntax highlighting can be toggled trivially from emacs menus, provided that you have a reasonably modern emacs or xemacs version. You didn't mention the version, platform, and you didn't mention whether you are using emacs in X or console (Emacs can't do (without extensive hacking) syntax highlighting in console, but XEmacs can). So with this information it's not easy to give the best answer to you. In my XEmacs 20.4 syntax highlighting can be toggled from Syntax Highlighting sub-menu in Options menu. In my Emacs 20.2, syntax highglighting can be toggled from Options sub-menu in Help menu. If you can't do it this way, bad luck. Post your question to some appropriate newsgroup (beastium-list isn't really suitable place for Emacs questions) like comp.emacs or gnu.emacs.help with more information. Hint: if you have older Emacs, start putting "(global-font-lock-mode t)" to your ..emacs. PS. If you configure your emacs via the options/customize mechanism, remember to save those options. //Hannu