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GNU Emacs 23.2.1 Fedora xfce 14 I starting to get into Prolog, and I want to use my emacs as the IDE for programming in Prolog. Currently I use emacs for c/c++. But not sure how to get started with Prolog. I know that emacs has a built in library for programming in emacs. However, I have researched and found it is feature less, i.e. no syntax highlighting, indention, etc. So I have download the emacs prackage Prolog.el. I have loaded this library using M-X Load-library . However, I am not sure what to do after that. How do I compile my prolog files? In the menu of the emacs IDE it has nothing

I'm trying to add Marmalade as a package source, but when I do so I get the error: Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives. Anyone know how to resolve this? Below is my .emacs file. ;;; This was installed by package-install.el. ;;; This provides support for the package system and ;;; interfacing with ELPA, the package archive. ;;; Move this code earlier if you want to reference ;;; packages in your .emacs. (when (load (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/elpa/package.el")) (package-initialize)) (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d")) (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d

I've recently moved from vim to Emacs because I want to use org-mode . I opened a ~10000 line, 50kb file in Emacs23 Org-mode and proceeded to add about 10 first-level headings. Performance on a quad-core with 3GB RAM in Emacs23 under Ubuntu 10.04/32bit was so slow that it was unusable. I found two threads on the Org-mode email list discussing this. It seems that enabling linum causes the slow performance. I can live without line numbers in .org files if I have to, but I don't want to disable line numbers for all files I edit. If I'm going to "live" in `Emacs', I'll want line numbers for all

The emacs tabbar.el package adds (buffer)tabs to each window and comes standard with aquamacs and can be added to emacs23 with the emacs-goodies-el package. Are any of you hardcore emacs users actually using tabbar? I'm sort of used to having tabs, but I would like to know if working without them could be more productive, and if there are other ways besides checking your bufferlist (C-x C-b) to get an overview of your current project files. As a side note, I really like textmate's project drawer (and tabs), but anything similar in emacs looks just plain hideous. Bozhidar Batsov I've tried

I tried to define hotkey as following (global-set-key [(control shift up)] 'other-window) but it doesn't work (no error, just doesn't work), neither does (global-set-key [(control shift down)] 'other-window) But (global-set-key [(control shift right)] 'other-window) and (global-set-key [(control shift left)] 'other-window) work! But because the last two key combinations are used by emacs (as default), I don't wanna change them for other functions. So how could I make control-shift-up and control-shift-down work? I have googled "(control shift up)", it seems that control-shift-up is used by

I can run a shell command quickly by hitting M-! . One thing I'd like to do is perform shell quick operations on the current file. An example would be checking the file out through perforce: M-! p4 edit buffer-file-name RET (Yes there are perforce integrations, but I'm more interested in the minishell/variable problem rather than a specific workflow) Of course, the buffer-file-name variable is not evaluated before the command is sent to the shell. Is there an easy on-the-fly way to do this? Or will I have to roll a custom elisp function? Indeed using C-u M-: is almost right. I'm not so sure

I want to set the indentation mode to tabs only, with a 4 character width for any mode. This seems like a trivial thing, but I have not had success. Every mode seems to have its own variables and options. I've tried doing this for Perl and R without success. Things that have not worked: (setq-default tab-width 4) (setq standard-indent 4) (setq-default r-indent-level 4) (setq perl-indent-level 4) (setq c-basic-offset 4) works for c-mode but nothing else. Am I forgetting something? Did I set the wrong variables? Is there no such option? I work with a variety of languages (R, Perl, sh, C/C++ etc.