Re: [OT]: Using Emacs

2014-09-09 Thread Thomas Adam 
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:46:21PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
 On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:47:19PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
  I ...  was wondering what others on this list do to make their lives easier
 
 Automatic removal of trailing whitespace in xemacs (see attachment):

Ah.  This is wonderful indeed.  Thank you, Dominik!  I'll mess about with these
but they're looking pretty good.  If I have to do any special hand-holding for
them I'll let you know.

I've not forgotten about the whitespace git hook either, I'll get to this on
Friday.

Thanks again. 

-- Thomas Adam

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Re: [OT]: Using Emacs

2014-09-09 Thread Dan Espen 
Thomas Adam tho...@fvwm.org writes:

 Hi all,

 I know this is slightly off-topic, but for various reasons I'm having to use
 Emacs, and was wondering what others on this list do to make their lives 
 easier
 with things like:

 * C development;
 * GDB;
 * Make/compilation

It's important to do make while inside Emacs, there are
benefits to working that way.

Bind some keys to invoke the compiler and find errors, I do:

(define-key global-map [(f1)] 'compile)
(define-key global-map [(f2)] 'next-error)
(define-key global-map [(S-f2)] 'previous-error)

 Anything fvwm-specific as well would be welcomed.

In the fvwm source directory I keep a file for Emacs that automatically
enforces fvwm project rules.

The name of the file is .dir-locals.el and it's contents:

((nil . ((indent-tabs-mode . t)
  (fill-column . 80)))
 (c-mode . ((c-basic-offset . 8)
(c-indent-level . 8)
(indent-tabs-mode . t

Emacs reads .dir-locals.el and applies it's rules in all
sub-directories.

-- 
Dan Espen