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- From: denson@sdd.hp.com (Craig Denson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs vs. the world . . . (was Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?)
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 13:51:28 -0700
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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- References: <ACHOW.92Jul23183544@cad093.scdt.intel.com> <1992Jul24.141245.18706@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Jul24.141245.18706@syma.sussex.ac.uk> mpue2@syma.sussex.ac.uk (James E. Talbut) writes:
-
- >> Oh, boy. An GNU Emacs vs. the world thread . . .
-
- is there anything out there other than emacs??
-
- >1) How do I dump it?
- this is don't know - it's a non-issue on a 50Mhz 030 - and once you get
- gnuserv working. investigate gnuclient.
-
- >2) How do I get it to not EVER do backups?
-
- (setq make-backup-files nil) ; in your .emacs file
- ; incidentally, backup files have saved my .. sanity .. more than once.
-
- >3) How do I get it to NEVER do autosave?
-
- (setq auto-save-default nil) ; also in your .emacs file
- ; however auto-save is a good thing, not a bad one. if it seems to
- ; frequent, try upping the character count between saves
-
- (setq auto-save-interval 1000) ; or even bigger.
-
- >Another question:
- >When I exit emacs it tries to write something to my SYS: what? and why?
-
- if gnuserv is running this may be where its socket is (how does this
- work on the amiga, anyway?)
-
- Some hints:
- work through the tutorial, 'Meta-?-i' will pop you into info mode and
- you can do the tutorial.
-
- edit your .emacs file and use 'Meta-?-v' while the cursor is on a
- variable name or 'Meta-?-f' while it's on a function name.
-
- e.g. for auto-save-default, you get:
- Documentation:
- *t says by default do auto-saving of every file-visiting buffer.
-
- craig
-