Re: is emacs in any linux base?

Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Xah Lee]

On Mar 23, 7:23 pm, Chiron
<chiron613.no.sp...@no.spam.please.gmail.com>
>
> You've spent considerable text trying to explain why emacs isn't included
> in the base distro, and why it's unmaintained.  Fortunately, you're
> simply wrong about it.  emacs *is* in the base Ubuntu distro, and it is
> maintained by the Ubuntu folks.

i don't have linux box or up-to-date virtual box to conveniently
check. Last year it wasn't.

can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?

am too lazy to check. Am doing reply here heading to bed. It's not
important.

 Xah

Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Richard Riley]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 23, 7:23 pm, Chiron
> <chiron613.no.sp...@no.spam.please.gmail.com>
>>
>> You've spent considerable text trying to explain why emacs isn't included
>> in the base distro, and why it's unmaintained.  Fortunately, you're
>> simply wrong about it.  emacs *is* in the base Ubuntu distro, and it is
>> maintained by the Ubuntu folks.
>
> i don't have linux box or up-to-date virtual box to conveniently
> check. Last year it wasn't.
>
> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?
>
> am too lazy to check. Am doing reply here heading to bed. It's not
> important.
>
>  Xah
>

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=emacs+ubuntu+package#

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http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/emacs

Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Chiron]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:37:23 -0700, Xah Lee wrote:

> 
> i don't have linux box or up-to-date virtual box to conveniently check.
> Last year it wasn't.
> 

Last year, it was.  My distro is from last year.


> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?
> 
No.  I can point to my box.

> am too lazy to check. Am doing reply here heading to bed. It's not
> important.
> 

Hmm... guess it's only important when you've got something to complain 
about?  OK, whatever.


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Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Susan Cragin]

>> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?

You guys are so last-distro. 
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/emacs

And if you want emacs-snapshot and emacs-snapshot-gtk, add the ppa
https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs

Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Ian Barton]

On 03/04/12 12:18, Susan Cragin wrote:
>>> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?
>
> You guys are so last-distro.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/emacs
>
> And if you want emacs-snapshot and emacs-snapshot-gtk, add the ppa
> https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs
>
>
>
>
I think that emacs-snapshot is deprecated. I filed a bug some time ago 
pointing out that the snapshot package was considerably older than the 
one in the main distro. I seem to remember that emacs-snapshot was 
removed from the main repos. I don't use Ubuntu as a desktop anymore, so 
can't easily check.

Ian.

Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Chiron]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:18:11 -0400, Susan Cragin wrote:

>>> can you point to a official ubunto page that says emacs is in base?
> 
> You guys are so last-distro.
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/emacs
> 
Well, yes... Xah was specifically talking about a distribution from last 
year.  So was I.


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Re: is emacs in any linux base?

[Susan Cragin]

>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/emacs

>> And if you want emacs-snapshot and emacs-snapshot-gtk, add the ppa
>> https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs

>I think that emacs-snapshot is deprecated. I filed a bug some time ago pointing out that the snapshot package was considerably older than the one in the main distro. I seem to remember that emacs-snapshot was removed from the main repos. I don't use Ubuntu as a desktop anymore, so can't easily check.

Hi, Ian. 
The last Ubuntu emacs-snapshot was built 6 days ago, and it is now kept up to date, and is also being worked on in Debian-unstable.
http://emacs.naquadah.org/
I did some searching a few days ago and some listserv claimed that "snapshot" is slightly different from the general EMACS and is not just an early snapshot of the general EMACS.