Emacs Again
It's now over a year since my first post on and about Enterprise Emacs and, believe it or not, lots have happened in the world of Emacs!
Some of the development is detailed here in my blog. The biggest news is that Emacs-23 now has been released!
In terms of usability I must say a lot has happened in only one year. Let's have a look at the items of my most wanted list:
- Scrollbar on the right!
- FIXED! A visible marked region... come on!
- FIXED! Marking text with shift + arrow keys, somewhat intuitive
- FIXED! Syntax highlighting!
- FIXED! A cursor that blinks so I can find it!
- A status line displaying both line and column of my cursor
- Continue at the file and position where I left off when I closed Emacs.
- FIXED! Shared clipboard with other applications!
OK, not bad. Now, what's left and how can we work around it in the interim? I'll start off by presenting the quirks and then finish off with a minimal .emacs file that will become our first Enterprise Emacs setup!
- Scrollbar on the right!
- Replace, or delete, a marked region on keyboard input.
- A status line displaying both line and column of my cursor.
- Continue at the file and position where I left off when I closed Emacs.
- Display an EOF indicator.
I really recommend using the Options menu to set the bulk of these, see the bullets below for pointers, the rest still needs to be set manually in the ~/.emacs file. That link points to a version controlled file that I will update for each new blog post on Enterprise Emacs.
- Options-->Show/Hide-->Scroll-bar-->On the Right
- Options-->Show/Hide-->Column Numbers
- Options-->Save Place in Files Between Sessions
- Options-->Show/Hide-->Fringe-->Empty Line Indicators
- Options-->Show/Hide-->Fringe-->Buffer Boundaries-->Opposite, Arrows Right
As you can see, the Options does contain a lot of useful settings. Try them out, they take effect immediately. Click Save Options so your settings are saved to your ~/.emacs file. I have included some of my own personal settings already in the above ~/.emacs file.
| Emacs | De Facto |
|---|---|
| buffer | file |
| frame | window |
| window | frame |
Sunday, 09 August 2009 at 12:20 | /emacs | permanent link to this entry