This page is intended to provide pointers to information that can answer questions you may have about Emacs.

If you are having problems with Emacs, and the built-in documentation under the "Help" menu in Emacs doesn't help, there are several sources of information available on the Internet. Specifically there are usenet newsgroups devoted to Emacs and related software:

• comp.emacs - General Emacs posting, not GNU specific
• gnu.emacs.announce - Announcements about GNU Emacs. (Moderated)
• gnu.emacs.bug - GNU Emacs bug reports and suggested fixes. (Moderated)
• gnu.emacs.gnews - News reading under GNU Emacs using Weemba's Gnews.
• gnu.emacs.gnus - News reading under GNU Emacs using GNUS (in English).
• gnu.emacs.help - User queries and answers.
• gnu.emacs.sources - ONLY (please!) C and Lisp source code for GNU Emacs.
• gnu.emacs.vm.bug - Bug reports on the Emacs VM mail package.
• gnu.emacs.vm.info - Information about the Emacs VM mail package.
• gnu.emacs.vms - VMS port of GNU Emacs.

There is also a good Emacs reference page.

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How do you make Emacs use colored fonts?

put the following two lines in your .emacs file:

  (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t)
  (global-font-lock-mode 1 t)