emacs question (can't find the .emacs file)

[Alex Maynard]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Slackrat wrote:

> * Alex Maynard <***@uoguelph.ca> a écrit profondement:
> |
> | Hi All,
> |
> | I've got a hopefully quick (maybe silly) question.
> |
> | I have emacs21 installed on ubuntu.
> |
> | emacs itself seems to be working fine, but I can't find
> | any .emacs file to customize.
> |
>
> However, having said that, my ".gnus" (mail/news) file that does all
> sorts of fancy stuff like putting my piccy (face) into every post and
> adding lame random signatures etc, etc is quite a lengthy file but if
> you are new to Emacs, I will put it on a server for you upon request.
> It could save you significant time and headaches.
>

That's very nice of you. Thanks very much for your offer.  My use emacs
is mainly for latex (and other) editing and the type of customizations
I was thinking of were along the lines of creating auto-completions or 
short-cuts for latex commands. [I explain in a bit more detail below]. If 
you have any examples alongs those lines, I would certainly be grateful to be to take
a look.

To explain what I'm aiming at, for example, it is tedious
to write
\begin{equation}
\end{equation}
over and over.

Currently I use the \newcommand enviremont in latex to shorten this to 
something like:
\b{\eq}
\e{\eq}

(e.g. \newcommand{\b}{\begin}, \newcommand{\eq}{\equation} etc.

The problem is that when I try to view in more of a What you see is what 
you get environment, such as preview-latex, my home-made short-cut commands 
won't display.  So that's why I am thinking of trying to build the 
short-cuts directly into latex.

Alex



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