From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marko Vojinovic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:14:36 +0000 Message-ID: <1978399.maUQQ65Fer@yoda> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325722493 27846 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2012 00:14:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:14:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 05 01:14:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Riaym-00016Q-Si for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:14:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Riayl-0002sV-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Riayf-0002jD-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:14:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Riaye-000359-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:14:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f169.google.com ([209.85.212.169]:64635) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Riaye-000351-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:14:40 -0500 Original-Received: by wibhq12 with SMTP id hq12so13922484wib.0 for ; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:14:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=ZqtalPMAJQcXz9kSsHcWNNFPewgYU65fEXLqJOKHMko=; b=UUZL5ADc8nzD6/RiQJ0250rg6rG/+DGaR08YTuepo/0uIj8L9gCqgWH6Hb+TPwKR85 tCHpJAUrPkiAyUKxH7iSBDjKkdUZHUC/dHeIvsds0gWDRlXLynOzdtK3b0Uf6rtwLhn6 FjTj2emZzDxGwOFp4Kb58RSTeCfy2NdT/xDMU= Original-Received: by 10.180.83.69 with SMTP id o5mr128158316wiy.1.1325722479055; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:14:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from yoda.localnet (bl14-216-165.dsl.telepac.pt. [85.247.216.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g12sm71061180wiw.10.2012.01.04.16.14.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:14:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/4.7.4 (Linux/3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.7.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.212.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83334 Archived-At: On Wednesday 04 January 2012 18:54:31 Jai Dayal wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Kim Young wrote: > > I am running Mac os x lion and I want to use emacs to try to write some > > shell scripts for work. I am new to emacs so I would like help with some > > very basic things. > > > > 1. What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is > > provided with lion? > > 1) in terminal type, emacs --version This maybe doesn't apply to the OP, but I've seen MacOSX users who don't even know what a "terminal" is, let alone how to open one (being a Linux user myself, I also had some trouble finding a way to open a terminal when I first sat in front of a Mac machine on one occasion). So, is there a way to find out the emacs version from within a running emacs instance itself? Best, :-) Marko