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Fredrik:
First of all, thanks for the help!
Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> writes:
> Emacs is buffer oriented, which may be somewhat strange to a new user.
Earlier, I went through some of the "tutorial" that comes with emacs. I
think I have the gist of how it works...
> If you're new, you can use the "Files -> Open File" menu entry, but
> experienced users probably prefer to use the keyboard shortcuts.
Heh, problem is I'm used to the Windows shortcuts for everything.
> Allright, to install LDraw-mode, you will need to put the file
> ldraw-mode.el somewhere in Emacs' load path. How do you know what is
> Emacs' load path? Well, the simplest procedure for Windows users is
> probably this hack: Search for files with the ".elc" extension. These
> are compiled Emacs Lisp files. If you find a directory with many
> ".elc" files, this directory is probably in Emacs' load path.
> Further, this directory will probably have the name "lisp". Now,
> copy the file "ldraw-mode.el" to this directory. You don't really
> need to byte compile it, but it speeds up execution. You can do it
> later on.
Hmm, when I put ldraw-mode.el in /lisp/, it didn;t work, but when I moved
it to /bin/ where runemacs.exe resides, it worked.
> You will probably want to put this line into the ".emacs" file as
> well:
> (global-font-lock-mode 1)
What should this do?
> You can put it beneath or above the other line, it doesn't matter.
> You'll also want to put something like this in your ".emacs" file:
>
> (setq ldraw-base-dir "C:/lego/ldraw")
Is this supposed to change the default directory for Files->Open File?
'Cause it didn't. (Maybe it's case sensitive so it didn't find C:/ldraw
instead of C:/LDRAW? or maybe it's the direction of the slashes? I'll
have to play with it...)
> Does this confuse you already?
No, I think I can follow :)
> Having done all this and restarted Emacs successfully, you can try to
> open an LDraw DAT file. Use the "Files -> Open File" menu item and
> select a file. Any LDraw-file, really, as long as it has the .dat
> extension. When you have done this, you should see that the buffer
> gets the LDraw major mode enabled (it will read LDraw in the mode
> line) and you will have an additional "LDraw" menu item on top. This
> tells you that LDraw-mode is successfully installed and ready to
> process an LDraw file.
What tipped me off was the nice colors. Even that should be helpful if I
get heavily into part-development.
> If you feel lucky, you can also try out the hose composing tutorial at
> http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/ldraw-mode/
I'll check it out when I have time.
> But be warned: If you haven't byte compiled ldraw-mode.el, you may
> have to wait a long time for the function to finish, as it is very
> CPU intensive, doing numerical integration and optimization. Byte
> compiling ldraw-mode.el should speed this up. Read on...
I followed these instructions before even getting LDraw-mode to work, so
I wasn't able to compare processing times :)
Thanks. I hope to find LDraw-mode useful when I have time to use it.
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht................BramL@JUNO.com
http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/
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