Emacs in Live CD

Emacs in Live CD

[subramani]

Hi

I tried Ubuntu and Gnoppix (Gnome LiveCD). In both i didnt find emacs.
What may be the reason to miss emacs in these LiveCD's ???

--  r.subramani
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Re: Emacs in Live CD

[Cameron Desautels]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:43:37PM +0530, subramani wrote:
> I tried Ubuntu and Gnoppix (Gnome LiveCD). In both i didnt find emacs.
> What may be the reason to miss emacs in these LiveCD's ???

Emacs can be rather large, and LiveCD makers are nearly always low on
space.  If they added emacs they'd likely have to remove something
else.
-- 
Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com>


"Isn't vi that text editor with two modes... one that beeps and one
that corrupts your file?" -- Dan Jacobson, on comp.os.linux.advocacy

Re: Emacs in Live CD

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com> writes:

> Emacs can be rather large, and LiveCD makers are nearly always low on
> space.  If they added emacs they'd likely have to remove something
> else.

mere aggregators, those deep-factor haters,
missed is their opportunity
for refinement, affinity!

banal copy-pasters, those inner-space wasters,
add two four times to make the eight,
yet three to power two they grate!

wretched "live" cd, all the more to pity,
glassy sockets w/ orbs of coal,
sham{-}bling, {qu,gr}easy, lacking soul!

thi

Re: Emacs in Live CD

[B. T. Raven]

"Thien-Thi Nguyen" <ttn@glug.org> wrote in message
news:7evetlorjk.fsf@ada2.unipv.it...
> Cameron Desautels <cam@apt2324.com> writes:
>
> > Emacs can be rather large, and LiveCD makers are nearly always low on
> > space.  If they added emacs they'd likely have to remove something
> > else.
>
> mere aggregators, those deep-factor haters,
> missed is their opportunity
> for refinement, affinity!
>
> banal copy-pasters, those inner-space wasters,
> add two four times to make the eight,
> yet three to power two they grate!
>
> wretched "live" cd, all the more to pity,
> glassy sockets w/ orbs of coal,
> sham{-}bling, {qu,gr}easy, lacking soul!
>
> thi

<also off-topic>

La! An enclosed - villanelle - Petrarchan - madrigal - limerick hybrid,
redolent of Poe's Raven. "sham{-}bling" I like because bling can be made
of electrum or terne (aka tot-killer); I find the portmanteau word
"{qu,gr}easy" unpronouncable, expanded though, it well describes some of
the people one meets at all-night restaurants. Is this part of a longer
paean to the GLunix* operating system?

* a well-glued together conflation of the more usual Gnu-Linux

Ed

Re: Emacs in Live CD

[August Karlstrom]

subramani wrote:
> I tried Ubuntu and Gnoppix (Gnome LiveCD). In both i didnt find emacs.
> What may be the reason to miss emacs in these LiveCD's ???

This question is better asked in an Ubuntu or Gnoppix forum.

<off-topic>
If I remember correctly the regular Ubuntu distribution does not contain 
the gcc c compiler either. Development tools need to be downloaded 
separately. Ubuntu is not primarily aimed at programmers. If you are a 
non-programmer, why should you be forced to download development tools? 
Fedora Core takes a different approach.
</off-topic>


August

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Re: Emacs in Live CD

[David Kastrup]

August Karlstrom <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:

> subramani wrote:
>> I tried Ubuntu and Gnoppix (Gnome LiveCD). In both i didnt find emacs.
>> What may be the reason to miss emacs in these LiveCD's ???
>
> This question is better asked in an Ubuntu or Gnoppix forum.
>
> <off-topic>
> If I remember correctly the regular Ubuntu distribution does not
> contain the gcc c compiler either. Development tools need to be
> downloaded separately. Ubuntu is not primarily aimed at
> programmers. If you are a non-programmer, why should you be forced to
> download development tools? Fedora Core takes a different approach.
> </off-topic>

Emacs is not a development tool but a way of life.

Take a look at Usenet hierarchies:

comp.lang.c
comp.sys.hp48
comp.os.linux.development.apps

but

comp.emacs

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: Emacs in Live CD

[Jay Belanger]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
...
> Emacs is not a development tool but a way of life.
>
> Take a look at Usenet hierarchies:
>
> comp.lang.c
> comp.sys.hp48
> comp.os.linux.development.apps
>
> but
>
> comp.emacs

Emacs should probably be at the top level.
There should be groups
emacs
emacs.editing
emacs.games
etc.

Jay