Re: [Sheflug] Emacs - formatting and dating files.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
> 
>     Barrie>  Excuse the lack of wrapping on this post, I'm trying to
>     Barrie> make sure it looks the same on my screen as everyone elses
>     Barrie> for this one...
> 
> Looks very lame on mine, trailing of the edge of the screen that
> way....  Netscape mail?  Just Say No.  Heed the author's warning:
> 
>                http://www.jwz.org/doc/html-compose.html

 Mmmm. I'm aware that the netscape mail composer isn't the finest bin of
kit around - but it does the job.
The thing that really annoys me is the fact that it wraps text upon
sending it, not whilst I'm typing.

I will eventually have to learn how to use Emacs for mail - hence my
earlier posts.

Whilst I'm on that thread, how do I deal with the fact that my email
address is TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net, but my local address is
baz@flux.localdomain (obviously not an internet visable host)?

I can't even figure out in Pine how to sent my address to be
TheEnglishman@ecosse.net

Is there an environmental varible I can set so all programs are aware of
my real email address?

>     Barrie> (a) how do I get Emacs to insert something along the lines
>     Barrie> of
> 
>     Barrie> "created DD-MM-YYYY HH:MI last modified DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM"
>     Barrie> (where the letters stand for the obvious) for tracking
>     Barrie> source code mods etc.
> 
> AFAIK there's no general facility.  Most Emacs users use either CVS or
> RCS, and they use the $Id$ keyword for this purpose.  In HTML you can
> use hm--html-menus and get exactly the effect you want.

 OK, I'll look at that one.

>     Barrie> (b) How do I configure how Emacs indents text when I press
>     Barrie> the tab key..
> 
>     Barrie>  For example, in Tcl mode, I might type some SQL queries
>     Barrie> that I want formatted a particular way.
> 
> This is "mixed-mode" operation, and it's basically not available
> unless you create special submodes.  I have some ideas about how to
> make it work, but this will take some years before it's generally
> available (it's pure vapor now).
> 
>     Barrie>  Tab doesn't even respond, unless I'm in the middle of a
>     Barrie> Tcl if/else/elseif section.

> To insert a literal TAB character, use C-q TAB.
> 
> Given the format eg you showed, you probably use tab a lot, and in
> fact you probably use it more for SQL than for Tcl.  You could do the
> following in .emacs:
> 
> (if t                   ; change `t' to `nil' to turn this off
>     (progn
>      (require 'tcl)
>      (define-key tcl-mode-map [(tab)]       'self-insert-command)
>      (define-key tcl-mode-map [(shift tab)] 'tcl-indent-command)))
> 
> Swapping that so that TAB does a Tcl indent and Shift-TAB inserts a
> literal TAB character is harder.  (C-TAB and M-TAB usually have
> commands bound to them already, so I don't want to use them.)
> 
> Use M-x untabify to turn literal tabs into spaces, and M-x tabify to
> "compress" the file by using literal tabs wherever possible.

 Clever stuff. Thanks Stephen.
 
 Baz.

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