From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is emacs in any linux base? Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:37:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <30768d6b-57c9-4cba-a3a9-f9d185ba693a@t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333446015 11543 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2012 09:40:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:40:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 11:40:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0Dl-0004mN-LU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36155 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0Dl-0002wp-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:40:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.126.112.84 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1333445945 11363 127.0.0.1 (3 Apr 2012 09:39:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.126.112.84; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.142 Safari/535.19,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191874 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:84287 Archived-At: On Mar 23, 7:23=A0pm, Chiron > > You've spent considerable text trying to explain why emacs isn't included > in the base distro, and why it's unmaintained. =A0Fortunately, you're > simply wrong about it. =A0emacs *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