(by Justine Ehlers)
The system administrator has to put XEmacs somewhere. In my case, the system admin gave me the path listed and had me source a c shell.I'm assuming the UNIX prompt is a " % ".
If you don't have this line already at the bottom of your .cshrc, add it:
# To use XEmacs
source < network path >/< file to source >
If you added the line above, make the changes take effect:
% source .cshrc
(Of course, you'll have to fill in your path and the name of your
file.)
I had changed my .emacs and .xemacs-options files to have C++ code indenting, hungry spaces, and to have colors shown on a black background. (XEmacs comes with a default grey background which made it harder to see some of the colors. I changed the background to black so I could use more colors. That took a couple hours.)
You need your own copy of the .emacs (this is where it stores the colors you pick) and the .xemacs-options file to store your own customizations.
Get the .emacs, and .xemacs-options file and put it in your home
directory:
See what my .emacs looks like.
See what my .xemacs-options looks like.
% cp .emacs ~/.
% cp .xemacs-options ~/.
% cd (get back to your own account)
% chmod 644 .emacs
% chmod 644 .xemacs-options
Edit the .emacs file to include your .xemacs-options file. Replace
my login with yours:
(load-options-file '/home/justinee/.xemacs-options')))
with
(load-options-file '/< your path >/< your_login >/.xemacs-options')))
To use XEmacs, type on the UNIX command line:
% xemacs &
or
% xemacs < filename > &
(Note: I have my mail address in there, too. Change that as well.)
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