Re: [Sheflug] Emacs - formatting and dating files.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
>     Barrie> OK, I've entered this code into my .emacs file, however on
>     Barrie> startup Emacs complains:
> 
>     Barrie> Error in init file: File error: "Cannot open load file",
>     Barrie> "tcl"
> 
> Argc.  Argv.  You're using "that other Emacs" aren't you.

 Yeap, the Emacs Emacs not XEmacs Emacs :-)

 XEmacs seems to take a bit of getting used to. Once I figure out EMacs,
and I've got a few hours spare, then I'll look at XEmacs.

> What do you do to start TCL mode, if anything?  Are you actually in
> TCL mode when editing that file?  (Look in the modeline, second to
> last line of the window.)

 I just open a file with a .tcl suffix. I don't explicitly invoke tcl
mode.

> OK, after disabling my code, restart Emacs.  Then type (leave out the
> quotes, everything outside of quotes is a single keystroke and the
> spaces outside the quotes should not be typed).
> 
> ESC : "(boundp 'tcl-mode-map)" RET
> 
> Down in the echo area (very bottom of the frame) it should say t or
> nil.
> 
> Now visit a TCL file and do it again.  What does it say this time?
> If it says t the first time, then life is easy, just comment out the
> (require ...) line by prefixing it with a semicolon.  If it says nil
> then t, there's hope but it's harder.  If it says nil then nil, I
> don't know what's going on.

 As I expected, when dealing with a file without a .tcl, the response is
nil.
If it is a .tcl file, tcl mode is started by Emacs, and the response is
t.

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