[PLUG] Some programming questions

[Pat Finnegan]

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------3E7178B7B8D887F6C5190C46
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



--------------3E7178B7B8D887F6C5190C46
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Message-ID: <3AD74C0C.CBCC9561@purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:57:16 -0500
From: Pat Finnegan <finnegpt@purdue.edu>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: "Vidyut Samanta (a.k.a vids)" <vids@purdue.edu>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Some programming questions
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104131332030.2584-100000@cary-b-127.resnet.purdue.edu>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

"Vidyut Samanta (a.k.a vids)" wrote:

>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Charles Allen wrote:
>
> >     I was wondering how you get syntax hilighting to work in Vim.. and
> > how you change the formatting rules for xemacs so that it doesn't keep
> > using weird indenting.
>         ^^^^^I think it is helpful, anyway :)
>
> To turn off the indenting in emacs change the mode to text mode
> (M-x text-mode or Esc-x text-mode ).

Ok, now how do I change the amount of indent.   Also I use jed (an emacs
clones).  Is there a similar thing i can do to it -- I think JED's defaults
are much more sane than emacs, but a 3-space indent is hard to get used to.

>
>
> As a side note, does anyone know of a routine
> > in C that will pause for x amount of time(or a system call), independant
> > of the system's cpu speed?
>
> look at the man page for sleep()
>
> Regs,
> -vids
>
> >
> > thanks a million,
> > -chuck
> >
> > ____________________________________________________
> > The Purdue Linux Users' Group (PLUG) mailing list.
> > For account maintenance, go to:
> > plug mailing list  -  plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> > http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/plug
> >
>
> ---
> If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances
> are 50-50 it will.
> ---fortune(6)
>
> ____________________________________________________
> The Purdue Linux Users' Group (PLUG) mailing list.
> For account maintenance, go to:
> plug mailing list  -  plug@csociety.purdue.edu
> http://csociety.ecn.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/plug

-- Pat

I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions.  The curtain
was up.
   - fortune(5)




--------------3E7178B7B8D887F6C5190C46--