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From: wgreenhouse-sGOZH3hwPm2sTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org (W. Greenhouse)
To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:51:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v5cpzhc.fsf@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAF-1L2RNyYEfVS81QnQNGiLkxbuJmfLQUNQrs7Co1zGtrmfNFQ@mail.gmail.com

"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Many distros do not provide emacs out of the box.  Something of a
> slap in the face, and unexpected.  And annoying.  Various distros
> handle emacs differently. 
>
> I like the way Gentoo handles emacs, and I may reinstall gentoo in
> the future.  Arch worked farily well.  I would prefer to just leave
> it alone, pretty much, and tolerate compiling it oneself.
>
> For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running
> emacs?
>
> Alan D

The vital thing is less a question of distros and more a question of
window manager/desktop environment, I think: avoid those which clobber
important Emacs keybindings (e.g. M-TAB) and make it hard to
reconfigure.

Best,
Will

-- 
BOFH excuse #135:

You put the disk in upside down.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-24 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-23 10:09 best gnu/linux distro for emacs Alan E. Davis
2013-03-23 13:31 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-23 15:24 ` Jude DaShiell
     [not found] ` <mailman.22700.1364045502.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-23 16:07   ` Jay Belanger
2013-03-23 16:38     ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-24  4:04       ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]       ` <mailman.22739.1364097866.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-24 10:52         ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-24 20:37           ` Bob Proulx
     [not found]           ` <mailman.22764.1364157438.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-03-25 12:01             ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-03-25 20:18               ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-27 21:29                 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2013-03-30 22:56               ` Bob Proulx
2013-03-31 10:38               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-03-23 17:10 ` Peter Münster
2013-03-24 15:51 ` W. Greenhouse [this message]
2013-03-24 22:59   ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25  1:00     ` W. Greenhouse
2013-03-25 14:42       ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 18:14         ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-03-25 19:04           ` Peter Dyballa
2013-03-26 13:29           ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-03-25 10:29 ` Bastian Ballmann

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