http://localhost:1313/tags/nudity/ Recent content in Nudity on UberMongoose Hugo en-us Wed, 08 May 2013 16:14:33 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/the-configuration-of-emacs/ Wed, 08 May 2013 16:14:33 +0530 http://localhost:1313/post/the-configuration-of-emacs/ <p>Emacs can only be configured naked by moonlight.</p> <p>I kid, I kid – the moonlight is optional.</p> <p>Emacs has a number of “modes”. Much has been said about them on the interwebs so <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/emacs/emacs-3.html">I’ll take the easy way out and link to a such an article</a>.</p> <p>There are as you would have seen two kinds of modes, major modes and minor modes. Major modes change what Emacs believes is the content, for example there’s a major mode for C and a major mode for Python. Minor modes allow small changes in behavior in any content. CUA-Mode is a minor mode that does some trickery to allow C-c and C-v copy and paste like on the venerable Microsoft Word. It can be enabled by the command M-x followed by typing cua-mode in the mini buffer at the bottom of Emacs. However you don’t want to be manually typing that in every time you start emacs so you put some initialization settings in your <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Init-File.html">Emacs init file</a>.</p>