How to use the code snippets

In the following chapters you will find a lot of code snippets that you will have to paste into configuration files. This is best accomplished by copying the code from the HTML version or the SGML source of this document. Rumors say that copying from PDF does not work reliably.

The sequence of the snippets that go into the _emacs file is not extremely critical. The most important thing is that the load-path is set correctly at the beginning of the file. If you walk through the tutorial, starting with a clean _emacs file, and add all relevant snippets to the end of your file, you should end up with a working configuration file. However, it is very unlikely that a little variety in the sequence would render your setup unusable, so feel free to experiment a little if you wish.