Tutorials

h1. Emacs

"Emacs":http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ is an extensible, customizable free text editor—and more.

There are several ways to do the syntax highlighting.

# Download the "50scol.el":http://www.irizone.net/dl/others/emacs/50scol.el file written in (E)Lisp.

# Copy it in _/etc/emacs/site-start.d/_ directory

# Add this line in your _.emacs_ file :

<pre>

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '(*.pkg' . scol-mode) auto-mode-alist))</pre>

This file is in your home directory (on GNU/Linux) or in the hard disk root (on MS Windows). Create it otherwise.

# Launch Emacs, you should read during the loading something like that :

<pre>

Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50scol.el (source)...done

</pre>

# Open a package (*.pkg) to verify