OK, I admit that this reply wasn’t perhaps what the OP was looking for, but oh well, I enjoyed writing it:

From: Theresa O'Connor <oconn...@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Getting Started...
Date: 26 Jul 2001 17:06:14 -0500
Message-ID: <u4c3d7jbb1l.fsf@cs.rose-hulman.edu>


> OK, I'm a newbie. I just want to know how to write C/C++ in Emacs.I
> just need the "Hello" programm, I'll find my way from there...and
> before you say it the Manual doesn't seem to explain this.

C-x C-f h e l l o . c RET # i n c l u d e SPC < s t d i o . h > RET
RET i n t SPC m a i n ( i n t SPC a r g c , SPC c h a r SPC * a r g v
[ ] ) RET { RET TAB p r i n t f ( " h e l l o , SPC w o r l d \ n " )
; RET } RET C-x C-s

HTH.


Ted

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Theresa O'Connor
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