If you don't know enough about emacs to even know how to start it, I would be very wary of editing a real file. You might get stuck, or damage it by mistake. Learn how to use the editor on some test files.
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If you get past the learning stage, are you in a command window or using some kind of GUI? If a command window, how about:
Code:
cd /abc/xyz.dev/xyz/documents
emacs abc.cgi
Quote:
how to open existing emacs files with .cgi format
There is no such thing as an "emacs file", to my understanding. It is just a text file you are editing. Any text editor, including emacs, will edit the file. And there is no such thing as ".cgi format". If a cgi file is a text file, you can edit it. If it's a binary file, you will just see gobbledy-gook.
Hi,
I am working with xEmacs 21.1 patch 14.
I see I can configure it to be very User Friendly.
I can highlight variables, color them, and actually make it look like a Visual IDE.
How do I configure it?
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Hi
How can I do ftp using emacs. I strart the function by M-x ftp. It connects to the server where I can see the list of files. how can I do put or get there?
Thanks
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I am using emacs to write c++ code. How to configure it to let the system highlight C++ keywords, variables, etc; and let it automatically indent, just like a common C++ IDE does?
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Hello, Does anyone know where there is an nice step by step to install emacs?
Or is ti just as easy as download, untar, run an install script sort of deal? (3 Replies)
could someone please tell me how do I work emacs on unix?? how do you input the command and open up files and edit stuff. I know M-x info will lauch the info viewer, C-x u is undo, M-x spell-region run a spell check but when i use some of these command on emacs in Unix, I'm getting no results or... (1 Reply)
After I had successfully installed bash I wanted to install emacs. I downloaded the packages from IBM (emacs, emacs-nox, and emacs-X11), but I could not install emacs-X11. It needs libjpeg and libtiff, but I couldn't install both libs. Error messages:
file /opt/freeware/64 from install of... (2 Replies)
04-20-2013
Learn how to use the editor on some test files.