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Article #4110Re: password shows on emacs as a shell
From: Kai Großjohann
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:23
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 17:23
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kirpi@tiscali.it (Luigi) writes: > I found that there are many files called .emacs inside my computer. > One of them is in /home/luigi and, as I am Luigi, this is probably the > file you mean. Inside Emacs, you can type C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET and you will be looking at the right file. > Now, I opened the file, and it is full of strange lines, similar to > the one you suggested me to add. > So, what should I do? I know that the following is painful, but I really really really suggest that you should understand the lines already in the file to get some understanding of what they do. I know that many people like to get long .emacs files from others and they are happy with it, but my experience is that having unknown lines in there will bite you sooner or later. One approach you could take is to rename the .emacs file to something else and then start Emacs without it and see what happens. Maybe you don't miss all the strange lines. In case you do miss something, you could try adding back lines from the old .emacs file to get it again. But only a few lines for each feature you're missing. And add comments for all the lines so that at least you know which feature prompted you to put the lines there! Another approach is that you keep the .emacs file but start to try to understand it. Maybe one line per day... kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)
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