Emacs: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:25, 22 May 2008

This page collects information on working with Emacs specifically on the XO.

Emacs is a text-editor and development environment, most likely of interest to developers.

enter the Terminal activity and type

su
yum install emacs

as found here

vi should already be available through the Terminal activity.
Install MicroEMACS by copying this file to the laptop.
Zile may be closer to what you expect from Emacs. Install this rpm file to get it.

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-This page collects information on working with Emacs specifically on the XO. For general Emacs information, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
+This page collects information on working with Emacs specifically on the XO.
+== What is Emacs? ==
+Emacs is a text-editor and development environment, most likely of interest to developers.
+For general Emacs information, please see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
 == How do I install Emacs? ==
+enter the Terminal activity and type
-* try "yum install emacs" per [http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080128.html Bill Clementson]
+ su
+ yum install emacs
+as found [http://bc.tech.coop/blog/080128.html here]
 == What about alternatives? ==
+* ''vi'' should already be available through the Terminal activity.
 * Install [http://www.mtxia.com/fancyIndex/Tools/Editors/MicroEMACS/ MicroEMACS] by copying [http://www.mtxia.com/fancyIndex/Tools/Editors/MicroEMACS/me404linux.bin this file] to the laptop.
 * [http://zile.sourceforge.net/ Zile] may be closer to what you expect from Emacs. Install [ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/6/i386/zile-2.2.19-1.fc6.i386.rpm this rpm file] to get it.