A GNU emacs 'matlab-mode' is available via anonymous ftp from csi.jpl.nasa.gov as pub/matlab/util/matlab-mode.el

On the PC, you can use the /r flag to start your m-file immediately upon starting MATLAB. Using this in combination with the Windows Task Manager, you can set a MATLAB job to run when you want it to run, even if you are not at the computer. Please note that you will need to exit MATLAB at the end of the m-file. Alternately, if you only want a single file to run, you can name it startup.m and place it in your MATLAB directory.

Emacs 19.29 or thereabouts stopped using a terminal type of "emacs" in shell buffers, and instead sets it to "dumb". Zsh only kicks in its special I'm-inside-emacs initialization when the terminal type is "emacs". Probably the most reliable way of dealing with this is to look for the environment variable $EMACS, which is set to t in Emacs' shell mode. Putting [[ $EMACS = t ]] && unsetopt zle in your .zshrc should be sufficient.

Yes! It uses the X11 ('http://cygwin.com/xfree/') Windows interface. From a remote login shell, this "emacs -nw" works fine. There is also a non-X11 version which just provides the text-only terminal interface. Use Cygwin Setup to install either one (or both).

ILISP is a powerful GNU-Emacs interface to many dialects of Lisp, including Lucid, Allegro, {A}KCL, IBCL, and CMU. Written by Chris McConnell <ccm+@cs.cmu.edu> and now maintained by Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu> and Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>. It is available by anonymous ftp from h.gp.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/rfb/ilisp/ [128.2.254.156] as the file ilisp-5.6.tar.gz. It is also available in the CMU AI Repository in ftp.cs.cmu.

GNU Emacs and XEmacs are related open-source text editors. Both derive from GNU Emacs version 18; the split between the two happened in 1991 (for comparison, the oldest versions of GNU Emacs date from 1984). For information on GNU Emacs, see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html.

No not at the moment. The GNU Emacs bindings would be added as a compatibility file (gnu.emf) in much the same way that the me3.8 bindings are added, see me3_8.emf.

Yes, a matlab mode and other items are available at the http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/files/104/matlab.el.

RTFM. Really, it's a great manual. Here's a list of commands that should allow you to use Emacs. The notation is pretty obvious, but it's explained in the manual anyway. M-w :Copy text between point and mark (point is the cursor. The selection is copied to the "kill ring"). M-y :cycle back through previous selection (try it after copying a few bits of text to see what I mean). C-h i :Go to Info mode (in Info mode, type m followed by a manual name, such as emacs to see that manual).

You should be using frames and abbrevs. Also check out the "desktop" feature. You should be answering mail with Emacs, probably with Gnus. Maybe registers as well, but I haven't started using them yet. Your .emacs should probably be 50 lines or more and should include a few simple functions attached to mode hooks etc.

The free software movement is something I care deeply about. The idea is that users of software should have rights as well, the right to use software how they wish, the right to adapt the software to their needs and to share improvements for the benefit of the user community. Big, proprietary, monopolistic companies like Microsoft are making this difficult in today's world, but there are alternatives.

A LOTOS-mode is included in CADP, you will find it in "$CADP/emacs". A READ_ME file explains how to install it.

Yes, and it is bundled with recent versions of ECLiPSe. Put eclipse.el in your emacs path, and add the line (autoload 'eclipse-mode "eclipse.el" "ECLIPSE editing mode" t) to your .emacs file. You will need a recent version of emacs: at least GNU emacs 20 or XEmacs 21. Instructions for using the mode are found at the start of the eclipse.el file. Yes, ECLiPSe is ISO Prolog compliant. There are also libraries to emulate other Prolog dialects, such as SICStus Prolog.

Since Emacs version 19 patchlevel 22 or so, there has been both a perl-mode.el and support for the perl debugger built in. These should come with the standard Emacs 19 distribution. In the perl source directory, you'll find a directory called ''emacs'', which contains several files that should help you. Daniel Smith <dls@best.com> is working on an interactive Perl shell called SoftList. It's currently at version 3.0b7a (beta). SoftList 3.

The python-mode shipped with Python 1.5 requires a new custom.el before it can be used with Emacs 19.34. For more information, see the description of python-mode at http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/.

Try these: # Local Variables: # mode: perl # indent-tabs-mode: nil # tab-width: 4 # perl-indent-level: 4 # End: How do I change my config tree to use the view dictionary entries introduced in 1.0.4? (added by jakeb 6/7/02) This is best illustrated via example. Suppose this is your existing (pre-1.0.

Yes. Peter Galbraith has written a very powerful mode for Gri commandfiles which is supplied with Gri and which is fully documented in the manual. The capabilities of the mode include the following. Uses built-in knowledge of Gri commands to 'complete' your commands. For example, typing 'drM-TAB' (where M-TAB is the completion keystroke) causes the mode to write 'draw' in place of the 'dr'. Pressing M-TAB again gives a list of all Gri commands starting with 'draw'.

The archives contain no less than three verilog modes for emacs: ftp.siliconlogic.com:/pub/comp.lang.verilog/verilog.el.Z Rick Eversole at Cadence maintains a verilog mode and occasionally posts it to comp.lang.verilog. At this time it supports only FSF 18.xx and Epoch. FSF 19.xx and Lucid Emacs (lemacs) are not supported. It is available at the archive site, or send email to eversole@cadence.com to request a copy if you have missed the posting and can not get it from the archive of comp.lang.

Gnu Emacs 18.55 (with Leonard N. Zubkoff's patches for SR10.2) seems to have a problem with shell subprocesses. At times the 0x0 character (displayed as ^@ by Emacs) appears in buffers running a shell. While this is only a nuisance running an inferior shell, it is a problem when running the M-x compile command: The C-x ' (next-error) function is unable to process the compiler output.

There are currently irreconcilable differences in the views about technical, programming, design and organizational matters between RMS and the XEmacs development team which provide little hope for a merge to take place in the short-term future. If you have a comment to add regarding the merge, it is a good idea to avoid posting to the newsgroups, because of the very heated flamewars that often result. Mail your questions to xemacs-beta@xemacs.org and bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.

For a detailed description of the differences between GNU Emacs and XEmacs and a detailed history of XEmacs, check out the User-Visible Editing Features XEmacs in general tries hard to conform to exist user-interface standards, and to work "out-of-the-box" without the need for obscure customization changes. GNU Emacs, particularly version 21, has gotten better about this (in many cases by copying the XEmacs behavior!), but still has some weirdnesses.

Unfortunately even the naming of these two applications has become politicized. Much of this stems from RMS, who has a history of politicizing similar issues. (Compare the controversy over "Lignux" and "GNU/Linux".) We would prefer that the terms "XEmacs" and "GNU Emacs" be used, which are neutral and acceptable to most people. RMS, however, is not willing to accept these terms.

Numeric computation, technical graphics and visualization, and an intuitive programming language for applications in engineering and science MATLAB is a complete environment for high-level programming, as well as interactive data analysis. MATLAB excels at numerical computations, especially when dealing with vectors or matrices of data. Symbolic math is available through an add-on toolbox that uses a Maple kernel. There are too many toolbox add-ons to describe here.