From: fox@graphics.cs.nyu.edu (David Fox) Subject: Re: generic nature of many Linux posts Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 06:28:01 GMT
In article <1ue7cr$9ho@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu (Thomas Dunbar) writes:
i wanted emacs 19; the work having been done by others, i just
ftp'd the emacs-19.9.tar.z source (5megs) from prep.ai.mit.edu
and then:
[commands elided]
and there's my new Emacs just waiting for Calc and other elisp
packages to be ported. did have to update my .emacs with stuff
like
(global-set-key [mode-line C-S-mouse-2] 'describe-key)
but there's nothing linux specific there.
That is because emacs-19 has already been ported to Linux.
It includes config files specifically written for Linux.
-david