Emacs

This page is just another resource for helping Emacs more fancy when typing out your programming code. To hook up JDE/JRE with Emacs, check out this page here.

Custom mode Files

If you have a custom mode file, for example python.el, you will need to byte-compile it first: 
C-x C-f /path/to/python-mode.el RET
M-x byte-compile-file RET
(You can ignore any compile errors).

Then, copy the python.el and the compiled file, python.elc to the directory where Emacs stores all of the mode-types. On my system it is /usr/local/share/emacs/20.5/lisp/progmodes.

You should do the same for other .el files for any other type of files (ie. PHP, ASP, etc...).

You can download many mode-types from here.

My .emacs File

You can view my .emacs file here. Copy this as ~/.emacs and you will have to edit it to change the email and path variables.
The file will make Emacs add color (all comments in dark-grey), and other fancy stuff to these type of programming language files:

Afra Ahmad 2000.