[solved]help an emacs newbie

[Rapsey]

Why does xemacs not support .cpp files? Turning on syntax highlighting does not do anything and ident also does not work. Do I have to install a module or something?

[limn]

xemacs should recognize the '.cpp' (as well as '.cc') extension and load cc-mode automatically, and that should be part of the standard package. Do you have:
/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/cc-mode/<bunch of files ending in .el and .elc>
Alternatively, what happens if you type
M-x c++-mode
You should see (C++ Abbrev) in the mode line if the xemacs package is installed.

[Rapsey]

cc-mode, does not exist, only this directory in lisp:

bash-2.05b$ ls -l /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/xemacs-base/
total 1812
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24179 May 15 12:05 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 May 15 12:05 _pkg.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38256 May 15 12:05 add-log.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20053 May 15 12:05 add-log.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169483 May 15 12:05 advice.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45495 May 15 12:05 advice.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17031 May 15 12:05 annotations.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12070 May 15 12:05 annotations.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5168 May 15 12:05 assoc.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4231 May 15 12:05 assoc.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74351 May 15 12:05 auto-autoloads.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72110 May 15 12:05 auto-autoloads.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4821 May 15 12:05 case-table.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2858 May 15 12:05 case-table.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6859 May 15 12:05 chistory.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5129 May 15 12:05 chistory.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518 May 15 12:05 comint-xemacs.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1008 May 15 12:05 comint-xemacs.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121182 May 15 12:05 comint.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68003 May 15 12:05 comint.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84705 May 15 12:05 compile.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45456 May 15 12:05 compile.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1383 May 15 12:05 custom-load.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1505 May 15 12:05 custom-load.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21432 May 15 12:05 debug.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12333 May 15 12:05 debug.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9721 May 15 12:05 easy-mmode.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6241 May 15 12:05 easy-mmode.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11420 May 15 12:05 ebuff-menu.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7784 May 15 12:05 ebuff-menu.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6534 May 15 12:05 echistory.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4281 May 15 12:05 echistory.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24522 May 15 12:05 edmacro.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14153 May 15 12:05 edmacro.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15522 May 15 12:05 ehelp.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8965 May 15 12:05 ehelp.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7746 May 15 12:05 electric.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3032 May 15 12:05 electric.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18244 May 15 12:05 enriched.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10626 May 15 12:05 enriched.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5789 May 15 12:05 env.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3287 May 15 12:05 env.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31572 May 15 12:05 facemenu.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22130 May 15 12:05 facemenu.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64204 May 15 12:05 ffap.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37612 May 15 12:05 ffap.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5058 May 15 12:05 helper.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3249 May 15 12:05 helper.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35593 May 15 12:05 imenu.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21843 May 15 12:05 imenu.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1174 May 15 12:05 iso-syntax.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 692 May 15 12:05 iso-syntax.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8285 May 15 12:05 macros.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5778 May 15 12:05 macros.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5647 May 15 12:05 novice.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2881 May 15 12:05 novice.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23336 May 15 12:05 outline.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16007 May 15 12:05 outline.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13156 May 15 12:05 passwd.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8545 May 15 12:05 passwd.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6714 May 15 12:05 pp.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3421 May 15 12:05 pp.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11379 May 15 12:05 regexp-opt.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4342 May 15 12:05 regexp-opt.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8775 May 15 12:05 regi.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5825 May 15 12:05 regi.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4465 May 15 12:05 ring.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2834 May 15 12:05 ring.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44557 May 15 12:05 shell.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28543 May 15 12:05 shell.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22588 May 15 12:05 skeleton.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15852 May 15 12:05 skeleton.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22520 May 15 12:05 sort.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13507 May 15 12:05 sort.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12572 May 15 12:05 thing.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6917 May 15 12:05 thing.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18955 May 15 12:05 time-stamp.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11940 May 15 12:05 time-stamp.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15080 May 15 12:05 timezone.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9537 May 15 12:05 timezone.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4219 May 15 12:05 tq.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3022 May 15 12:05 tq.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18935 May 15 12:05 xbm-button.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14676 May 15 12:05 xbm-button.elc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21474 May 15 12:05 xpm-button.el
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15668 May 15 12:05 xpm-button.elc


M-x c++ -> it says: keyboard macro terminated by a comand ringing bell, or [no match]

[limn]

It's been too long.... It isn't part of the standard package:

emerge cc-mode

[Rapsey]

thanks dude