Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tymix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!tymix!granvold From: granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Help with EMACS Message-ID: <547@tymix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 19:54:39 EDT Article-I.D.: tymix.547 Posted: Tue Oct 1 19:54:39 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 06:26:23 EDT Reply-To: granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold) Followup-To: net.emacs Distribution: net.emacs Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA Lines: 31 Keywords: ? macros options Summary: How Do You ...? - We have recently recieved GNU EMACS and have no local EMACS wizard to bother with silly questions, so I though that I would bother the readers of net.emacs :-) I would appreciate any help with the following questions. 1 - I can change option settings with the 'edit-options' command. But, when I exit at the end of the day and come back the next morning the options are back to their default values. How do I save the option settings and recall them later? 2 - How can I recall macro definitions after I have exited and returned? 3 - Can options be changed and macros defined in the .emacs file? If so, how? 4 - What are some of the more interesting, useful and easy things that can be done in the .emacs file (other that changing key bindings)? How are these done? 5 - Is it possible to have a file of EMACS commands that can be called and executed in the middle of editing? How can I create such a file? In other words I would like to customize EMACS a bit more to my liking, but I am having problems doing it. By the way we have version 16.56.1. I know a little LISP, not enough to write any real code, but enough to be able to modify an example. Thanks in advance, Tom Granvold ucbvax!allegra!oliveb!tymix!granvold