[NCLUG] emacs lisp packages/modules?

[paul hansen]

Mike,

A lot of the language support modules should already be installed. From
within emacs you can check to see if specific packages are installed.
For instance, to see what is installed relating to perl: M-x apropos RET
perl RET (where M-x is Escape-x).

The FAQ I looked at seems to be fairly up to date (though the last update
was 15 months ago):

 http://www.lerner.co.il/emacs/faq-body.shtml

If you need extra lisp packages, they should be at:

  ftp://ftp.emacs.org/pub/elisp/

Here is a pretty good emacs article:

  http://www.messengers-of-messiah.org/~csebold/emacs/why.phtml

If you want a great .emacs file, I have one put together by an emacs guru
in the CS dept at CSU. Yell if you want a copy.

I've used the sumo for installing xemacs, but there isn't one for emacs
(as far as I know).


  --Paul






On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Mike Loseke wrote:

>
>  Hello, I am an emacs newbie. I am installing a shiny new version of emacs
> from scratch and I need to add in several lisp modules (like for perl
> mode for instance). For xemacs I found the sumo package which is nice -
> I was wondering if there's anything like that for plain old emacs? The
> emacs faq that I found isn't of much help as it's 5+ years out of date
> and chock full of bad URL's. I found the emacs lisp archive but I'd
> rather not do onesy-twosies if I don't have to. Suggestions?
>
>  RPM is not being used.
>
>