Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: configuring the docbook major mode for GNU Emacs(Win NT)

[Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>]

"Lossner, Kevin" <KLossner@easy.de> writes:

> Since Emacs is mentioned so often in this list as an editor, I
> thought I'd take a look at it and try the configuration that Norm
> Walsh created for editing docbook files. I'm a bit stuck at the
> following instruction in the README file:
> 
> >> 4. Add the elisp code in dot_emacs to your .emacs file.
> 
> As far as I can tell there is no such file in the NT distribution of
> Emacs. What's the equivalent in this context?

Before going further with your configuration on Windows, you should
probably read and follow Markus Hoenicka's step-by-step tutorial:

  http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ntsgml.html

Your .emacs file is a user-config file that goes in the directory you
specify with your $HOME environment variable. It's not part of the
distribution because it's meant to hold only personal customizations.

You can create a .emacs file using any text editor (Emacs itself,
Notepad, whatever) and save it in your $HOME directory.

If you name/save the file using something other than the Windows file
manager, you can call it .emacs. But the file manager won't let you
create filenames that start with a dot, so I think you can call it
_emacs instead, and Windows Emacs will still recognize it.

For getting any serious work done on Windows, you might also want to
consider installing Cygwin:

  http://www.cygwin.com/

If you've heard of the MKS Toolkit, Cygwin is the free/open-source
alternative. In a nutshell, installing it gives you a standard UNIX
bash shell and an big set of common utilities (grep, tar, gzip, etc.)
and UNIX development tools that will run under Windows. It basically
lets you interact with a Windows machine as if it were running UNIX.


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