Manuals

• Two useful HOWTO's for dealing with CCIS computing facilities (both a little old, but still good):
  • http://www.ccs.neu.edu/welcome/
  • http://www.ccs.neu.edu/howto/howto-login-logout.html.
  • More HOWTO's at http://www.ccs.neu.edu/howto/

• [emacs-19.txt]: A short introduction to Gnu Emacs. This is the editor of choice for most programming tasks. Emacs allows editing multiple files, running multiple processes, reading mail and news, etc. Many people just fire up an emacs and stay in it all day. (Even under X windows) Try it, you'll like it.

  CCIS offers several versions of emacs:

  • emacs-21.3 on the Unix machines gets Gnu Emacs 21.3
  • emacs on the Unix machines gets Gnu Emacs 19.34
  • xemacs on the Unix machines gets XEmacs 20.4
  • On the CCIS lab machines, selecting Programs > CCIS Applications > Editors will get you to a version of Gnu Emacs 21.3

  If in doubt, using Gnu Emacs 21.3. The manual linked above is for emacs 19.34, but I believe that everything in there is still accurate.

  If you have not used emacs before, there are lots of emacs introductions that can be found with Google or your favorite search engine.

  I'm not planning on doing demos in class, but if you pester me I can spend a few minutes showing you how to use emacs with PLT Scheme.

  Emacs is highly customizable. A sample .emacs file, with the minimal set of things I think you should have, is at .emacs. Copy it into your home directory if you want to use it.

  Last modified: Wed Sep 02 15:23:04 -0400 2009