Python friendly emacs

[Bill Janssen]

Daniel, I run GNU Emacs 20.4 under X, and have no problem with using
Python.  I use python-mode.el, which you can get from www.python.org.
You'll need to put the file in a directory which is on your Emacs
load-path, and add

  (autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" nil t)
  (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))

to your ~/.emacs file.

To get Emacs to default to python mode when it edits a file with the
extension of .cgi, just add

  (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.cgi" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))

to your ~/.emacs file.

Bill