Emacs configuration

This is my Emacs configuarion. It has been cobbled and borrowed from people who know more about Emacs and Emacs Lisp than I do. Here are some of my sources: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ESSWindowsAdvice https://github.com/boorad/emacs https://github.com/overtone/live-coding-emacs.git

You are more likely to find my configurations useful if:

• you come from a Windows + Visual Studio background
• you want to use Emacs primarily for Erlang development
• you want to use Emacs on both Windows and Linux

If you think I've butchered things please let me know.

If you don't already have Emacs install it. I'm using Emacs 23.3.1. Clone (or download and extract) this repository into your your home directory (Linux "/" Windows "%HOME%"). Once you have a "/.emacs.d" directory edit your "~/.emacs" file to require emacs-config by adding these two lines:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
(require 'my-config)

.. to hook up Erlang mode, edit your "~/.emacs" so that it sets the erlang-root-dir variable.

My "~/.emacs" file looks like this (on both Windows and on Linux):

;; Where is Erlang on this machine?
(if (not (boundp 'erlang-root-dir))
    (if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
	    (eq system-type 'ms-dos))
	(setq erlang-root-dir "C:/bin/erlang/erl5.9") ;; Windows
      (setq erlang-root-dir "/usr/local/lib/erlang")) ;; Linux
  )

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d")
(require 'my-config)

(if (or (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
	    (eq system-type 'ms-dos))
	(setq default-directory "C:/code") ;; Windows
      (setq default-directory "~/code")) ;; Linux