[OS X Emacs] Re: aquamacs 1.9 configuration issues

[Kurt Andrews]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Kurt Andrews <kurt.w.andrews at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm new to emacs.  I'm trying to learn it because I'm working through the
> "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" lecture and text, and
> I'm trying to resurrect some programming skills from an AI  course I took a
> number of years ago that require lisp.
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> Let me start by saying that I find it hard to understand why a text editor
> needs to be this complicated.  Now that that's out of the way, I fully
> intend to figure out how to get the most out of this editor.
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> I'll start with a simple list of things that need to be accomplished to get
> the editor to an acceptable state where I can spend a few hours coding
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>    1. highlight the current line
>       - this was easy to find in the options->view menu and saving options
>       is all that was needed.
>       -
>       - save added  '(global-hl-line-mode t) to custom-set-variables
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>       2. all tabs '/t' to expand to two spaces in all buffers, files etc.
>       - I had to poke around in options->customize aquamacs to figure out
>       how to get the tabs and indenting to work the way I want, but it wasn't
>       intuative.  When I was done the following lines were added to
>       custom-set-variables
>          -  '(indent-tabs-mode nil)
>          -  '(standard-indent 2)
>          -  '(tab-width 2)
>       3. turn on line numbering in the left margin for everything by
>    default
>       - I had to look at least two places to find the answer to figure
>       this out and hack the linum.el program in the application resources for
>       aquamacs.  None of the stuff on the wiki would work until I found the
>       comments about require in linum.el.  I've included my preferences.el file
>       below
>    4. get everything that i open or create with aquamacs to use the same
>    "menlo" font
>       - *This is where the questions start I worked on this for two days
>       and I'm still not sure it's the right way to do this, but it's working for
>       me.  I won't add any of this information to the wiki until someone can
>       explain what's going on and whether or not this is the right way to do this.
>       *
>       - Following the instructions on the aquamacs wiki to change the
>       default font, added line 18 to my customizations.el, but that didn't change
>       the font to menlo for everything.  I tried options->appearance and setting
>       the font for individual modes.  Saving options after each change for a mode,
>       made the font persist for that mode, but I didn't want to have to do that
>       for every mode.  I don't even know how many there are or exactly what a mode
>       is.  Options->appearance->autofaces->use current face as default added line
>       19 to customizations.el.  This did the trick for me, now everything uses the
>       same font, but color-theme-selector is broken.  I don't even know what
>       faces/autofaces are so I'm not sure what's going on
>    5. Get a better color theme working (maybe fix xcode or create my own)
>       - Since I was never able to get the xcode color theme to stick, the
>       default color theme is working for now, but I find it hard to read
>       especially the way perl mode is highlighting hashes and arrays, I've got to
>       fix that.  There may be a bug in the xcode color theme, (Warning: Bug in
>       color-theme-mode: it forgets to call `run-mode-hooks) is logged to the
>       messages buffer when I try to use it.  I don't know if this is why it won't
>       stick or not.  I'd like to try to fix this or come up with my own color
>       theme but I don't really understand the process for changing any of the el
>       code in the gzip files, our how to create the compiled elc code that's in
>       the resource directory.  Is there a way via configuration to get the xcode
>       theme to stick?  How would I fix xcode, or add my own theme?
>
> Here are my configuration files:
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>    - Customizations.el
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>    1. (custom-set-variables
>    2.   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>    3.   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>    4.   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>    5.   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>    6.  '(aquamacs-additional-fontsets nil t)
>    7.  '(aquamacs-customization-version-id 190 t)
>    8.  '(global-hl-line-mode t)
>    9.  '(indent-tabs-mode nil)
>    10.  '(standard-indent 2)
>    11.  '(tab-width 2)
>    12.  '(transient-mark-mode t))
>    13. (custom-set-faces
>    14.   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>    15.   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>    16.   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>    17.   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>    18.  '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "White" :foreground
>    "Black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
>    :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 100 :width normal
>    :family "menlo"))))
>    19.  '(autoface-default ((t (:inherit default :background "White"
>    :foreground "Black" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil
>    :overline nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 100 :width
>    normal :family "menlo")))))
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>    - preferences.el
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>    1. ;; This is the Aquamacs Preferences file.
>    2. ;; Add Emacs-Lisp code here that should be executed whenever
>    3. ;; you start Aquamacs Emacs. If errors occur, Aquamacs will stop
>    4. ;; evaluating this file and print errors in the *Messags* buffer.
>    5. ;; Use this file in place of ~/.emacs (which is loaded as well.)
>    6.
>    7. (require 'linum)
>    8. (global-linum-mode 1)
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> Thanks,
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> Kurt
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