Hi Naresh, Here's a great tutorial on how to do it: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ModeTutorial
Emacs has a mind boggling number of modes readily available so in most cases you won't have to write one from ground up. Take a look at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryModes for a list of modes available. To install a new mode you can try the following: C-h v load-path See the directories there and put your .el file into one of those directories. You can add something like the following in to your ~/.emacs file so that the mode is loaded automatically: ;; for HTML files (autoload 'html-mode "html-mode" "HTML mode" t) (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.html$" . html-mode)) auto-mode-alist)) Pretty useful :-) Regards Manohar On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Raja <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > I am currently working on providing PDF versions of the newsletter but >> it >> > will not be available immediately. I write the newsletter directly in >> HTML >> > in emacs so it is a little harder to move it over to PDF. Perhaps in the >> > future, I can make use of typesetting toolkits like LaTeX (my experience >> > with it is scanty at best). >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > Regards >> >> > Manohar Vanga >> > > hey Manohar! > > this could be off-topic but can you please tell me how to install a new > mode in emacs. I assume one needs to have the .el file or whatever and then > modify some config file, but i'm not sure how this works. > > thanks > raja > >
