Friday, January 18, 2008

Small changes with Emacs

Emacs is a great editor with many different capabilities. One of the best features of Emacs is that it is highly configurable. There are several default settings that I use with Emacs in the configuration file. I will give only a couple of them. You can put these in to your local Emacs configuration file ".emacs" or ".emacs.d/.emacs" which might depend on your system.

To change your background and foreground colors to black and white:

(set-background-color "Black")
(set-foreground-color "White")

To change the cursor color:

(set-cursor-color "White")

To stop Emacs from creating auto backup files:

(setq make-backup-files nil)

There are many more options and settings you can change with Emacs. Try and enjoy it. Welcome to the world of Emacs :).

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