Thanks for the reply. You just motivated me to try again.
I accidentally just pasted a chunk of text in emacs and noticed it is the place where the newline arrows are displayed. I looked it up and it is called 'The Fringe'. This is one of the things I tried without success. I should have posted my incorrect code on my first post.
I usually use emacs in xterm. This option is not needed there.
I have been teaching myself unix a little here and a little there. I would like to learn emacs, or an editor that I would get the most use out of. What is the most used editor in unix? (1 Reply)
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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?
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What is the difference between Xemacs and emacs. I assumed Xemacs runs only in X11.
What about in Linux on KDE? Am I running Xemacs or emacs. Well it says emacs though.
What is the advantage of one over other?
What can I run on OS X ?
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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)
I'm trying to compile two files in Emacs (guess.cpp and yesno.cpp). So I open up Emacs (the text version) and give the command M-x and then I try to type in "g++ -o asst guess.cpp yesno.cpp". But everytime after I type "g++" and try to do a space after that, it says and wont let me type a space?
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Hi,
I have Aix 6.1.
Installed the Ricoh Unix print filter, to allow us to print to a Ricoh 5001.
So I send text documents to the printer using the qprt command and set the print job finishing options using the Ricoh commands passed using -o options.
Eg. qprt -Pfin200 -o collate=on -o text... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new to this forum and a beginner in unix. Please correct me if I put the question in a wrong way..
How to use emacs editor? Also how to open existing emacs files with .cgi format?
I have the following link :-
http link i.e. url and path : /abc/xyz.dev/xyz/documents
What... (7 Replies)
Hi Everybody! First post! Totally noobie.
I'm using the terminal to read a poorly formatted book.
The text file contains, in the middle of paragraphs, hyphenation to split words that are supposed to be on multiple pages. It looks ve -- ry much like this.
I was hoping to use grep -v " -- "... (5 Replies)