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| @@ -713,7 +713,6 @@ On-line Help, Printed Manuals, Other Sources of Help | |||
| 713 | distribution, and also the latest versions are available individually via | 713 | distribution, and also the latest versions are available individually via |
| 714 | anonymous FTP (prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/GNUinfo/): | 714 | anonymous FTP (prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/GNUinfo/): |
| 715 | 715 | ||
| 716 | APPLE -- Why the FSF doesn't support GNU Emacs on Apple computers | ||
| 717 | DISTRIB -- GNU Emacs Availability Information, | 716 | DISTRIB -- GNU Emacs Availability Information, |
| 718 | including the popular "Free Software Foundation Order Form" | 717 | including the popular "Free Software Foundation Order Form" |
| 719 | FTP -- How to get GNU Software by Internet FTP or by UUCP | 718 | FTP -- How to get GNU Software by Internet FTP or by UUCP |
| @@ -922,31 +921,9 @@ Common Things People Want To Do | |||
| 922 | Use "C-h v" (M-x describe-variable) to check the value of variables which | 921 | Use "C-h v" (M-x describe-variable) to check the value of variables which |
| 923 | you are trying to set or use. | 922 | you are trying to set or use. |
| 924 | 923 | ||
| 925 | 28: How do I make Emacs display the current line (or column) number? | 924 | 28: How do I make Emacs display the current column number? |
| 926 | |||
| 927 | To find out what line of the buffer you are on right now, do "M-x | ||
| 928 | what-line". Use "M-x goto-line" to go to a specific line. To find the | ||
| 929 | current column number, type "M-ESC (current-column)". | ||
| 930 | |||
| 931 | If you use these commands often, you might want to bind them to a key. | ||
| 932 | See question 104 for instructions on how to do that. | ||
| 933 | |||
| 934 | Typing "C-x l" (or M-x count-lines-page) will also tell you what line you | ||
| 935 | are on, provided the buffer isn't separated into "pages" with C-l | ||
| 936 | characters. In that case, it will only tell you what line of the current | ||
| 937 | "page" you are on. | ||
| 938 | 925 | ||
| 939 | To have Emacs automatically display the current line number of the point | 926 | Do M-x column-number-mode. |
| 940 | in the mode line, do "M-x line-number-mode". You can also put the form | ||
| 941 | |||
| 942 | (setq line-number-mode t) | ||
| 943 | |||
| 944 | in your .emacs file to achieve this whenever you start Emacs. Note that | ||
| 945 | Emacs will not display the line number if the buffer is larger than the | ||
| 946 | value of the variable line-number-display-limit. | ||
| 947 | |||
| 948 | None of the vi emulation modes provide the `set number' capability of vi | ||
| 949 | (as far as we know). | ||
| 950 | 927 | ||
| 951 | 29: How do I turn on abbrevs by default just in mode XXX? | 928 | 29: How do I turn on abbrevs by default just in mode XXX? |
| 952 | 929 | ||
| @@ -971,7 +948,7 @@ Common Things People Want To Do | |||
| 971 | 948 | ||
| 972 | If you want auto-fill mode on in all major modes, do this: | 949 | If you want auto-fill mode on in all major modes, do this: |
| 973 | 950 | ||
| 974 | (setq-default auto-fill-hook 'do-auto-fill) | 951 | (setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill) |
| 975 | 952 | ||
| 976 | 31: How do I make Emacs use a certain major mode for certain files? | 953 | 31: How do I make Emacs use a certain major mode for certain files? |
| 977 | 954 | ||
| @@ -1340,7 +1317,7 @@ Common Things People Want To Do | |||
| 1340 | * Typing "C-x C-e" in any buffer evaluates the Lisp form immediately | 1317 | * Typing "C-x C-e" in any buffer evaluates the Lisp form immediately |
| 1341 | before point and prints its value in the echo area. | 1318 | before point and prints its value in the echo area. |
| 1342 | 1319 | ||
| 1343 | * Typing M-ESC or M-x eval-expression allows you to type a Lisp form in | 1320 | * Typing M-: or M-x eval-expression allows you to type a Lisp form in |
| 1344 | the minibuffer which will be evaluated. | 1321 | the minibuffer which will be evaluated. |
| 1345 | 1322 | ||
| 1346 | * You can use M-x load-file to have Emacs evaluate all the Lisp forms in | 1323 | * You can use M-x load-file to have Emacs evaluate all the Lisp forms in |
| @@ -2058,12 +2035,24 @@ Finding/Getting Emacs and Related Packages | |||
| 2058 | 2035 | ||
| 2059 | 88: Where can I get Emacs for my Apple computer? | 2036 | 88: Where can I get Emacs for my Apple computer? |
| 2060 | 2037 | ||
| 2061 | The FSF is a participant in a boycott of Apple because of Apple's "look | 2038 | There used to be a boycott of Apple because of its "look and feel" |
| 2062 | and feel" copyright suits. See the file etc/APPLE for more details. | 2039 | lawsuit. The lawsuit failed, and the boycott is over. |
| 2063 | Because of this boycott, the FSF doesn't include support in GNU software | 2040 | Currently the GNU project treats Apple like other computer companies. |
| 2064 | for Apple computers such as the Macintosh. | 2041 | |
| 2065 | 2042 | Since the Mac operating system is very different from Unix and GNU, | |
| 2066 | Please don't help people port or develop software for Apple computers. | 2043 | support for it would be a big job. And this job would be tangential |
| 2044 | to the GNU project's goals. Meanwhile, we don't have the resources | ||
| 2045 | to do all we want to do on supporting Emacs for GNU-like systems. | ||
| 2046 | So if we had to do work on support for the Macintosh, that would | ||
| 2047 | directly harm the GNU project. | ||
| 2048 | |||
| 2049 | Of course, the same is true for MSDOS and Windows NT. We decided to | ||
| 2050 | incorporate support for those systems because the code was very modular, | ||
| 2051 | because volunteers not only wrote all the code but also investigate | ||
| 2052 | all the bugs reported on those systems, and because we hoped that we | ||
| 2053 | will be able to raise funds for GNU using these versions, and in this | ||
| 2054 | way these ports will make up for the effort that they took. (We still | ||
| 2055 | hope so, but it has not happened yet.) | ||
| 2067 | 2056 | ||
| 2068 | 89: Where do I get Emacs that runs on VMS under DECwindows? | 2057 | 89: Where do I get Emacs that runs on VMS under DECwindows? |
| 2069 | 2058 | ||
| @@ -2918,7 +2907,7 @@ Mail and News | |||
| 2918 | 2907 | ||
| 2919 | * Emacs normally only reads the `.mailrc' file once per session, when you | 2908 | * Emacs normally only reads the `.mailrc' file once per session, when you |
| 2920 | start to compose your first mail message. If you edit .mailrc, you can | 2909 | start to compose your first mail message. If you edit .mailrc, you can |
| 2921 | type "M-ESC (build-mail-aliases) RET" to make Emacs reread .mailrc. | 2910 | type "M-: (build-mail-aliases) RET" to make Emacs reread .mailrc. |
| 2922 | (You have to include the parentheses where they are shown!) | 2911 | (You have to include the parentheses where they are shown!) |
| 2923 | 2912 | ||
| 2924 | * Emacs does not interpret vendor-specific additions to the format of the | 2913 | * Emacs does not interpret vendor-specific additions to the format of the |