Emacs 'n' stuff

[mrBen]

I decided it was time to get to grips with emacs. Why? (You may ask) Well, I'm looking to be able to run Linux without a GUI, to kinda get to grips with the whole thing, so I needed a good text editor, to match up with Mutt and Links for email and (limited) surfing. That was the plan.

Anyway, a couple of related questions:

1. I know in X I can start Emacs with -fg and -bg colour options, but in a standard console it is all white on black. Is there any way of getting it to display proper colour (including syntax highlighting)?

2. It's all awful big - any way I can get the console to display in a smaller font size?

3. When all is said and done, Emacs is great, but I am so used to using Ctrl-x, c and v, and all the (I know, Windows :( ) standard shortcuts. Is there a text editor that has all those, works outside X, and allows syntax hightlighting for programming (mainly HTML & JavaScript at the moment, but moving into Java, SQL, Perl, and C in the near future)?

Thanx for all your help :D

[root.veg]

Slightly unhelpful reply:

You can definitely change the key bindings in Emacs to whatever you want them to be. However, I have been too lazy to even try.

Colour is certainly possible in console mode - I've seen it done in the flesh, but again, haven't used Emacs in console enough to know how.

Don't know about the font size thing...

Actually, that wasn't helpful at all, really, was it? Well, at least I've found a fellow Emacs user (I think most people around here use vi/vim). I used it at uni when writing LaTeX documents and programming in Pascal and Fortran.<sigh> Halcyon days...

[mrBen]

Thanks for the reply :) To be honest, while I prefer Emacs to Vi, because it uses control and alt keys, rather than commands, I'm so used to the Windows shortcuts that if I find a text editor with similar functionality I will move across. Methinks that remapping the entire Emacs keybindings might be more trouble than it's worth. (Although I did think about mapping in all the f keys as a fix)