I was just notified that the mail was sent in by Raja Sharan and not Raja Naresh. Sorry for the error!
Thanks Manohar On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Manohar Vanga <[email protected]>wrote: > I forgot to mention that if you want to put your .el files into a separate > folder, you should add the following to your .emacs file: > > (add-to-list 'load-path "~/my_emacs_stuff") > > Regards > Manohar > > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Manohar Vanga > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> >
