Emacs HowTo

Why?

This page was added because I was often asked how to do some of the things I do in Emacs when coding.

Downloads?

You can download all the files listed below so it is easily extractable.

You can download the .emacs.d files if you want themes, svn utilities, gtk doc and gtk alignment functions

You can download the .emacs file if you want to see what shortcuts I use.

You can download the SVN ChangeLog preparation script, the GIT-SVN ChangeLog preparation script and the CVS ChangeLog preparation script.

Features

• Jumping to Other file (i.e. from .c to .h and visa versa)
• Opening the documentation for a function in devhelp based on the function the cursor is positioned over
• Showing trailing white space
• Formatting function definitions according to GTK+ styling.
• Adding shortcuts for compiling, moving to the previous and next errors
• Adding shortcuts for jumping to lines
• Disabling the PO translation editing mode when editing .po files
• Setting email address
• Setting grep command
• Setting scrolling enabled for compilation output
• Nice way to commit to SVN, GIT and CVS repositories

Nice Looking Emacs

Screenshot

Adding Repository

First add these to your /etc/apt/sources.list (you can change gutsy for edgy, etc):

	deb     http://ppa.launchpad.net/avassalotti/ubuntu gutsy main
	deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/avassalotti/ubuntu gutsy main
    

Installing

Finally, run either apt-get or aptitude to fetch and install the packages:

	sudo aptitude update
	sudo aptitude install emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot-el
    

Optionally

I also set up the fixed font which I think looks better:

	echo "Emacs.font: Monospace-10" >> ~/.Xresources
	xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources