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

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:

    >> If tcl-mode is set up properly, this should win.

    Barrie>  Guess what. It failled - with the longest error message
    Barrie> I've yet seen from Emacs.

Oh, blitch.

    Barrie> What is the situation between GNU Emacs and XEmacs then? I
    Barrie> thought they were just part of the same group...*shows his
    Barrie> ignorance*

http://www.xemacs.org/About/XEmacsVsGNUemacs.html

    Barrie> My main concern at the moment is getting the tcl mode set
    Barrie> to my liking and having a white-on-black XEmacs
    Barrie> window. I'm very fussy about the colours of things -
    Barrie> especially when I'm working on code.

Options | Edit Faces

And don't hit the "save" button until you're (a) pretty happy and (b)
pretty sure there's nothing really to screw you in there.

Note: Tcl may reuse other faces, or it may design its own.  There's no
easy way to find out which faces do what, unfortunately.  Face changes
should take effect on hitting the "set" button.

    Barrie> Is there a way to port across my .emacs file to (I guess)
    Barrie> a workable .xemacs file - save all this pissing about with
    Barrie> Emacs

It _should_ work out of the box.  `xemacs -debug-init' from the
command line will give you more information about the error.  It puts
you in the emacs debugger, but you don't need to worry about that.
Just figure out where the error is.  Use C-x C-f (or C-x 4 C-f) to
visit your .emacs file, comment out the offending code (just make sure
the parens are balanced, C-M-f and C-M-b skip back and forth over
matching parens -- it's more complicated than that, but just make sure
point is right _before_ an ( for C-M-f or _after_ an ) for C-M-b and
you'll see how it works).

Then RUG (repeat until good).



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