r460621 added flavours to editors/emacs. If you previously used editors/emacs-nox11 to get a flavour suitable for most server systems, you’re in for a couple of surprises. Continue reading GNU Emacs flavours in FreeBSD
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CPUTYPE woes with editors/emacs on FreeBSD/i386 stable/10
On my FreeBSD/i386 stable/10 and head VMs I have set up clang as the system compiler.
CC=clang CXX=clang++ CPP=clang-cpp KERNCONF=VBOX
I have also set CPUTYPE to corei7 as this is accepted by clang and pretty much describes the capabilities of the host system.
CPUTYPE?=corei7
Continue reading CPUTYPE woes with editors/emacs on FreeBSD/i386 stable/10
UTF-8 in GNU Emacs
I nicked the following from http://linux.seindal.dk/2004/08/07/gnu-emacs-and-utf-8-locale/:
(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
You may also specify your preference toward the Unix newline convention:
(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8-unix) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)
My .emacs file for use with GNU Emacs 23.3 on Microsoft Windows
My favourite editor is no doubt GNU Emacs. I spend most of my time at work using Microsoft Windows, so why shouldn’t I use this excellent editor on that OS? Continue reading My .emacs file for use with GNU Emacs 23.3 on Microsoft Windows