[boulder.pm] emacs, vim, gardening and stuff

Rob Nagler nagler at bivio.biz
Fri Jun 21 11:51:35 CDT 2002


Lewis, Donald G writes:
> I prefer emacs too. It can do some amazing stuff, don't know about vim. But
> my problem too is that I do not understand all of the code behind emacs so I
> tend to leave it the way I find it. Sometimes it will not do what I want
> even though I know it is possible for it to do. For instance the version
> here at work is sort of plain vanilla, best I can tell, and I cannot figure
> out how to get the syntax to display in color and for it to check the parens
> and other constructs.

You need to install cperl.  You can do it locally in your ~/emacs
directory.   Here's a page I found which discusses it:

http://www.khngai.com/emacs/perl.php

Here'e the general pages on programming modes:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Emacs-Beginner-HOWTO-3.html

Cheers,
Rob





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