From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 13:32:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35AE2C89-747F-4159-821B-B6B50EE4F783@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1978399.maUQQ65Fer@yoda>
Am 5.1.2012 um 01:14 schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
> 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).
Apple adds some documentation to the released DVDs which explain such basic things. It's mostly English, though... and has to be read by oneself, it does not speak.
>
> So, is there a way to find out the emacs version from within a running emacs
> instance itself?
How can you determine that when you can't launch a terminal in which GNU Emacs runs?
--
Greetings
Pete
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
– George W. Bush
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-05 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-04 19:22 newbie needs to be bailed out Kim Young
2012-01-04 19:45 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-04 22:40 ` Philipp Haselwarter
2012-01-04 23:57 ` Peter Dyballa
2012-01-04 23:54 ` Jai Dayal
2012-01-05 0:14 ` Marko Vojinovic
2012-01-05 0:16 ` Jai Dayal
2012-01-05 0:20 ` Drew Adams
2012-01-05 12:32 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2012-01-05 3:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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