Changes between Version 25 and Version 26 of Astronomical Tools/Software

Timestamp:

03/31/06 15:29:03 (20 years ago)

Author:

cdelarcuz

Comment:

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Astronomical Tools/Software

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 === pine === 
 === mutt === 
-=== emacs === 
+=== emacs ===
+To start Emacs, 
+just type emacs &. For an introduction to Emacs type C-h t inside Emacs to 
+enter the Emacs tutorial. The AucTeX information on the IoA Local Page describes 
+a powerful interface to writing LaTeX in Emacs.
+
+You can configure Emacs to your hearts content by editing your own 
+version of the Emacs configuration file ~/.emacs (a default .emacs file 
+can be copied from /public/Default_Scripts/.emacs, which contains the 
+following lines and some additional features that may be useful) e.g. for 
+editing text of a specific type that emacs knows about, such as fortran, 
+tex, c or idl script code, you should switch to the appropriate major mode 
+so that coloured text can be used to highlight different sections of text, 
+add the following lines to this file:
+
+(setq font-lock-face-attributes
+      '((font-lock-comment-face "SeaGreen" nil nil t nil nil)
+        (font-lock-variable-name-face "blue")
+        (font-lock-string-face "red")
+        (font-lock-function-name-face "Magenta")
+        (font-lock-keyword-face "blue")
+        (font-lock-type-face "MediumOrchid")
+        (font-lock-reference-face "orchid")))
+(setq emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+(setq latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+(setq tex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+(setq fortran-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+(setq info-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+(setq dired-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+
+For IDL scripts (.pro files) you can similar obtain coloured text and recognise IDL syntax by adding the lines:
+
+(autoload 'idlwave-mode "idlwave" "IDLWAVE Mode" t)
+(autoload 'idlwave-shell "idlw-shell" "IDLWAVE Shell" t)
+(setq auto-mode-alist  
+(cons '("\\.pro\\'" . idlwave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
+(setq idlwave-help-directory "/usr/local/etc")
+(add-hook 'idlwave-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
+
+
+ 
 === vi vi(m) === 
+vi stands for VIsual editor, and it is the standard UNIX editor. 
+As such it is widely used. The advantage of vi is that whatever linux/Unix 
+system you use, there will be a version of vi there, it is also 
+compact and quick, much quicker to start up than for instance emacs or nedit. 
+The downside is that it is difficult to learn, more so than emacs. 
+If you are not going to use it, you only need to know that you get 
+out of it by typing :q or :q! to avoid saving the file.
+
 ==== plugins for browsers: ====
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