Setup Emacs for GiellaLT

For modern Emacs versions (might need a download first)

Modern Emacs versions have nXML-mode and good Unicode support built-in, and support lots of handy packages.

If you’re using a Mac, first download a fresh Emacs from https://emacsformacosx.com/ and then run

        echo 'alias emacs="open -a /Applications/Emacs.app"' >> ~/.bashrc
        echo 'alias em="/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw"' >> ~/.bashrc

to make the “emacs” start your newly downloaded Emacs.app in GUI, and “em” start it in terminal.
Close the terminal and start a new one.

If you have a file ~/.emacs, first move it to ~/.emacs.d/init.el

    mkdir ~/.emacs.d
        mv ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/init.el

In a new terminal, do

        cd
        svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/apertium/svn/trunk/apertium-tools/emacs apertium-tools-emacs
        mkdir ~/.emacs.d
        echo '(load "~/apertium-tools-emacs/init-apertium.el")' >>  ~/.emacs.d/init.el
        emacs

Note: If you’ve already checked out the full apertium SVN tree, you already have the init-apertium.el file and you might want to just refer to that:

        mkdir ~/.emacs.d
        echo '(load "/path/to/where/you/have/apertium-svn/trunk/apertium-tools/emacs/init-apertium.el")' >>  ~/.emacs.d/init.el
        emacs

On first run, Emacs should download some packages for you, then you should be ready for editing CG, XML, lexc and twolc with syntax highlighting and many handy functions.

See http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Emacs for some of the features given by the above configuration.

For old Emacs versions (default-installed on Mac’s)

Older Emacs versions need to be setup to be use UTF-8 as its default decoding and to use nxml mode when writing xml-documents.

Fetching and unpacking nxml-mode

Fetch nxml mode. You end up with a folder called nxml-mode-2xxxxxxx. Move it to the Documents folder.

Setting up

After this is done, open the file $HOME/.emacs.d/init.el. Add the following lines to that file.

          ;; Make the nxml-mode you downloaded available to emacs
          (load "~/Documents/nxml-mode-20041004/rng-auto.el")

          ;; Load nxml-mode automatically for files with the following endings
          (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
          (cons (concat "\\." (regexp-opt '("xml" "xsd" "sch" "rng" "xslt" "svg" "rss") t) "\\'")
          'nxml-mode))

          ;; Older Emacs versions need to be told to use UTF-8 for both display and editing:
          (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
          (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
          (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)

          ;; Turn on syntax colouring in all modes supporting it:
          (global-font-lock-mode t)

Save and close the file.