Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 02:56:56 -0400 From: Brian Phillips <stringchopper@gmail.com> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .emacs error in developer's handbook (section 2.7) standard-display-european & cannot load hilit19 Message-ID: <CAOo7RYkipnM2mwtbo-mrgoYkbxLwnpCYsFEt%2BgzPivwFtmgiFA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23857.61286.9721.989244@alice.local> References: <CAOo7RY=Ho1z8urT0Gsfw6A1BL09=uwh5ZorX4uMoTegkPabhCg@mail.gmail.com> <23857.61286.9721.989244@alice.local>
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Brian Paul Phillips Thank you both for your input. I deleted the lines for hilit and standard-display-european, and emacs opens without error warnings. I will give sjrmanning's config a try and read up on the emacs faq. Good to know about the 'customize' facility for modifying .emacs files. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 12:27 PM George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> wrote: > Brian Phillips writes: > > I'm trying to use the .emacs configuration listed in the FreeBSD > > Developer's Handbook, 2.7, and I get these error messages for which > google > > isn't helping (this neophyte) much. Can someone point me in the right > > direction for fixing the 'standard-display-european' issue as well as > the > > 'cannot open load file ... hilit19' problem? > > Looks like that section of the handbook is fairly out of date. > > Question 66 in the emacs FAQ [1] says that it's deprecated but > included; I don't even see it in the current distributions. The same > FAQ question goes to describe how to use font-lock mode instead. > > If you're looking for a good place to get started with a fancier emacs > config, I found sjrmanning's config [2] to be a wonderful starting > point. > > g. > > [1]: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/part2/ > [2]: https://github.com/sjrmanning/.emacs.d >
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