Howto setup emacs

Emacs has to be setup to be use UTF-8 as its default decoding and to use nxml mode when writing xml-documents.

Fetch nxml mode. You end up with a folder called nxml-mode-2xxxxxxx. Move it to the Documents folder.

After this is done, open the file $HOME/.emacs. Add the following lines to that file.

;Make nxml-mode available to emacs
(load "~/Documents/nxml-mode-20041004/rng-auto.el")

; Load nxml-mode automatically for files with the following endings
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
(cons (concat "\\." (regexp-opt '("xml" "xsd" "sch" "rng" "xslt" "svg" "rss") t) "\\'")
'nxml-mode))

; Make Emacs UTF-8 compatible for both display and editing:
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)

; Turn on syntax colouring in all modes supporting it:
(global-font-lock-mode t)
      

Save and close the file.

Last modified $Date: 2008-11-05 18:52:54 +0100 (ons, 05 nov 2008) $, by $Author: boerre $