hi all~

I am start using emacs these days, and because I was with windows texteditor before(ie, EditPlus) and got confused when transfered myself to emacs. i noticed when i was coding with somewhat file it will automatically create a temporaly buffer file like myFile.cpp~, what did it mean and can emacs avoid creating them ?

thanx in advance~

Open or create a file called .emacs on your home directory and add the line below:

Then files~ will not be created anymore.

Notice that the ~ suffix is the equivalent of the .BAK in Windows/DOS world. In case you acidentally change and save an important file, you can always revert back from the ~ file. This already saved me from big headaches.

In other words, emacs create those files for your own protection, so I advise you to think twice before disabling this feature. It's so easy to do a "rm *~" at the end of the day, so why risk?

thanx afm i think i may keep backup files as they were.

and here are some new problems i'd appreciate your help

1 now i am editing c++ file with emacs, is there any way to make emacs highlighted for c++ or other syntax ?

2 and, when i save a c++ source file test.cpp, how to invoke certain compiler to compile it ?

3 in windows i can select certain region by pressing Shift key and moveing cursor together, and how can we select region in emacs ?

4 cut, copy and paste have no shortcut keys ??? i can only see something like "(<cut>)" etc.

5 some commands like colose file etc are usually used, but by default there are no shortcut keys for them, can i customize it ?

6 anywhere can i change indent size ??? default seems to be 8 spaces, but i prefer 4 instead~

question 4 solved, how about others ? help~~~~~~~~~~~~~~