emacs for OS X

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Tuxtrax <See_my at Signature.com.invalid> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> My editor of choice on linux for python, bar none, is xemacs. I love the
> python mode that detects a python file and handles indentation and 
> coloration for me automagically.
> 
> I have been using a powerbook for a while now, and I finally found emacs
> for aqua in OS X Jaguar (10.2.8). I downloaded it from porkrind.com. The
> version of emacs is 21.3 I believe. Anyway, not only does it *not* 
> detect python files automatically, but it tries to use fundamental mode
> to handle them which is a pain in the ass. I want my coloring and 
> indentation back, damn it all!
> 
> I found python-mode.el in the python distribution folder, but not only
> do I have no clue as to what to do with it, I can't find an emacs folder
> or a .emac file. Just the emac program. Any help with this would be 
> greatly appreciated. If you have overcome this yourself I especially 
> want to hear from you.
> 
> In other news.....
> 

I use Emacs with Panther but i think that the situation is the same.
Download python-mode from python.org:
 http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/python-mode.el

Compile the file

Move both file where emacs can find them

Open Terminal
The .emacs file is into your home folder (tipically /Users/<youid>) so
when you open terminal you are already in the right place

add the following lines to your .emacs file :

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq interpreter-mode-alist
      (cons '("python" . python-mode)
            interpreter-mode-alist))
(autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode." t)
(global-font-lock-mode t)
(setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)

(i've found this code in www.python.org)

Now when you try to open a .py file emacs  loads python-mode
Hope this helps

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Ciao
Fabio