Aquamacs reads these files at startup, in this order:
First, start Aquamacs.
Then do
alias aq='aquamacs'
If a remote system supports SAMBA (like netserver does) you can connect to the remote SAMBA server and access the filesystems under /Volumes. If it doesn't supporn SAMBA (like frgp-ws-1 or nagman don't) you'll want to use TRAMP. TRAMP is distributed wih Emacs, so it's useable in Aquamacs.
For TRAMP to work, some things have to be set up:
To open a file named SummitStatistics.py on a machine named frgp-ws-1.frgp.net, do
C-x C-f C-f /frgp-ws-1.frgp.net:~siemsen/Sum TAB
To open a file named check_snmp_trunks2.pl on a machine named nagman, do
C-x C-f C-f /nagman:/etc/nagios3/plugins/nets/check_snmp_trunks2 TAB
Aquamacs comes with html-helper-mode, which is quite different than XEmacs HTML-mode. I don't like html-helper-mode.
I considered nxhtml, but it's for editing XHTML. After a couple of hours learning about XHTML, I decided that I don't want to use XHTML. It's more strict, and it requires that the web server deliver it with the right MIME type, which means that the files have to have names that end in .xhtml. That'll never happen on the NETS web - we already have .htm, .html and .shtml files! So if anything, I'm waiting on HTML version 5, which is out as of August 2009.
Anyway, to render the current buffer with Safari, *save the buffer*, then do M-x browse-url-of-buffer. If I want to bind that to a key some day, the key should be C-c C-v. I did local-set-key, which was fine. Figure out how to do it in the .xemacs/init.el file.
For help understanding html-helper-mode, see
Since html-helper-mode doesn't indent well, you can call an external "tidy" program to indent the buffer. Then you have to deal with getting tidy to do what you want. See Vagmi's blog about it
Click on the little oval at the upper-right part of the window.
This makes the toolbar disappear, which is great,
but it'll be back the next time you start AquaMacs.
To make the changes stick, I did
By default, Aquamacs uses Lucida-Grande as the default font for all modes, including programming languages. This sucks for programming languages, obviously. It also sucks for any other modes where things are presented in columns, like Man mode. You can individually set each mode's font, but there are some you can't set. Like the little window that pops up when you run ediff. If you select '?', that window displays column-aligned help. It looks terrible in a proportional font. I tried to set the default by following theses instructions in the Aquamacs FAQ:
To set the default font for all buffers, do M-x customize-face and type in default.
Then place the cursor in the
This failed with an error, so I kept struggling and finally got it to work.
It put this into my
(load-file (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/init.el"))
When you're messing with keyboards, you sometimes want to see what character Emacs sees when you hit a given key. To see the last 300 characters, use C-h l.
When Emacs opens a file, it automatically detects the "coding system" of the file, including the end-of-line convention used by the file. Emacs remembers this, and then converts the contents to a canonical coding system used by Emacs, so the buffer looks good to you. Later, when the file is written, Emacs converts its internal representation back to the one it detected when the file was opened. This way, you can edit files with weird coding systems, and they'll look good in Emacs while you edit them, but they'll be written with the style they had when you opened them.
Sometimes you'll want to explicitly change the coding style that
Emacs uses when writing a file. For example, when you use ZTerm
and capture a 6509 switch console session, ZTerm writes a file with
just CRs at the end of each line. If you look at such a file with
Terminal, you'll see a mess with lots of "^M" characters. If you open
such a file with Aquamacs, it'll look good in Aquamacs. If you change
the file and save it, it'll still look screwy in Terminal. To make
the file look good in Terminal, you need to open the file with
Aquamacs, change the coding system, then write the file. To change
the coding system, use
If you get the weird Microsofty case where every other character in
a .html file is a null (shows as ^@ in Aquamacs and black diamonds in
Safari) you can use replace-string to delete them. Go to the top of
the buffer and do
When you use "Save As" in Apple Mail.app to make a copy of an email message that came from the Internet2 NOC, you may find that the file contains weird spacing characters. The file will look fine when displayed with a "more" or "cat" command, but when you look at it with Aquamacs, some of the space characters will show up as blue underscores. These are ASCII 160 characters. If you copy the file into an HTML file, and then display the file with Safari, the characters will show up as  (capital-A-with-a-circumflex). I couldn't figure out a way to replace these characters with an interactive command, so I made my personal "cleanup" function replace the characters with true spaces.
This section describes setting the colors of the foreground.
To set the background color, see below in the
To set a color theme (a set of colors for teh foregrounds of all the types of text that Emacs displays):
This saves stuff in
I chose
Emacs shares the colors of things that are common across programming
languages.
This is beautiful - comments in C, Java, Perl or shell scripts are all
the same color.
To see the list of syntactic elements that can be individually colored, do
Aquamacs has per-mode syntax highlighting, so you can set it up so that when you edit a shell script, you get different colors than when you edit a Perl program. I don't want to do that - I want comments to use the same color in Bash mode as in Perl mode. But if I did, you do it by gotting in the mode, then:
There is a documented way to make our own theme, but
it fails for me - the resulting file which I named
"Petes-color-theme" causes errors in Aquamacs.
Nevertheless, the procedure is to first select a theme
(I chose
If you get it to work, then you're ready to modify it to turn it into what I really want. Each of the lines basically defines attributes of a face. To see a list of faces and the way they are currently set, do M-x list-faces-display. Experiment, changing one face color at a time and restarting Aquamacs to see the results. A faster way is to use the face-list.el function, which you can download from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FaceList.
In Emacs, background colors are part of the face used to display a buffer.
To change the font for a mode, get in the mode and select
fink install ispell
Info files can be found in
Aquamacs uses the files in /usr/share/info.
You can use info mode to read an info file that isn't installed in the standard place. Suppose you have a file named emacs-lisp-intro.info sitting in ~Downloads. Go into info mode in Aquamacs, type 'g', and when it prompts "Go to node:", enter
(~/Downloads/emacs-lisp-intro.info)
The fit-frame package provides a way to resize windows to fit their contents. You can use it manually, or turn on autofit-frames-flag. I tried auto-fit-frame but I discovered that I don't really want it when I use tabs. I discovered that fit-frame, written by Drew Adams, does exactly this, and is part of a large library of stuff that's designed to make Emacs handle frames better, which Drew calls One On One Emacs. It turns out that Drew's Libraries are a part of Aquamacs, in /Applications/Aquamacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/aquamacs/oneonone/
From my cursory inspection, it looks like fit-frame works but autofit-frame doesn't.
on 2009-09-25, I installed git using fink. Then I downloaded the full Aquamacs source with this command:
git clone git://github.com/davidswelt/aquamacs-emacs.git
This created a git repository in /Users/siemsen/aquamacs-emacs/.git/ and more importantly, ~/aquamacs-emacs. I was able to run build-aquamacs and make a working Aquamacs, and then run it with
open ~/aquamacs-emacs/nextstep/Aquamacs.app
In October 2009, David Reitter posted a message to the Emacs on OS X mailing list asking for volunteers to edit the Aquamacs manual. His email explained
The list of items is essentially visible in the aquamacs/doc/latex/changelog.tex file.
The manual is written in LaTeX and contained in aquamacs/doc/latex/aquamacs.tex.
Use "make" to recreate the html/pdf versions.
That's fine if you want to edit the manual, but to process it into
anything, you need to have LaTeX.
See
If you want to experiment with Lisp programming, you'll probably want to open
a lisp file like init.el and try to evaluate a line in the buffer
by going to the end of the line and typing
Don't bother to install SLIME - you'll just be unhappy if you do. SLIME may be superior for heavy Lisp coders, but it's overkill for me. I just want to evaluate little snippets of Lisp code. SLIME is a complex environment that requires that connects to an external Lisp system. To get SLIME to work, you have to install an external, stand-alone Lisp system. Not worth the bother, hence, just don't install SLIME. The following documents what I did before I discovered that SLIME is more than I need.
SLIME is the
This installs /Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/SLIME/.
Once you've done this, and you go into Lisp mode, Aquamacs will no longer
suggest that you install SLIME.
Ok - so you must be running SLIME, right?
Not so fast.
When you try
If you have shared files sitting on a Unix server (like netserver), and you share them using smbd (SAMBA), and you mount them on a Mac and then try to edit the remote files using Aquamacs, you may run into a problem with lock files. Aquamacs creates files named ".#xxxx" whenever you modify a buffer. Aquamacs won't be able to delete the files when you save a buffer, because of a known problem with the Mac SAMBA client. The lock files will remain after an editing session. The next time Aquamacs tries to modify the file, Aquamacs will hang with the spinning wheel of death.
A work-around is to modify the config of the smbd
server. Add
If Aquamacs starts and goes "beep", and won't open windows, and when you click on its icon it goes "beep" and does nothing, it's because you have a junk frame-positions file. Aquamacs remembers where your windows (frames) are. If you were using multiple displays, and had windows spread around, and now you only have one display, Aquamacs gets confused. The solution is to quit the brain-dead Aquamacs, delete the file named ~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs\ Emacs/frame-positions.el, and restart Aquamacs.
Yasnippet is a cool way to get completion. It's installed and works in Perl and Lisp modes, but not in HTML mode, don't know why. Maybe I don't care, texiexpander has ones for HTML (use, like ,br and ,ul).
Gtypist is a program to help you learn to type. Gtypist-mode is an Emacs mode that accesses the same tutorial files as Gtypist. To install gtypist-mode, I
(autoload 'gtypist-mode "gtypist-mode")
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.typ\\'" . gtypist-mode)
auto-mode-alist))
Now, I can use Aquamacs to open a gtypist tutorial file like ~/.xemacs/gtypist-2.8/lessons/m.typ, and I'm in gtypist mode. It's not at all clear how to *use* it :-) Now to figure out how it works, and see if I can use it to make me faster with Aquamacs.
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/org-7.01h/lisp"))
(require 'org-install)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
(define-key global-map "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
(define-key global-map "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
(setq org-log-done t)
I used "C-H V org-version" to check that I was running 7.01h.
To create minutes of a meeting, use the "*" and "**" syntax to set the levels. Then use M-x org-export-as-ascii to export it, and cut what you want out of the "table of contents"