From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: best gnu/linux distro for emacs Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364052277 12958 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 15:24:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: "Alan E. Davis" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 16:25:03 2013 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 1UJQJb-0003MS-9U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:25:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44717 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJQJD-0006qr-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJQJ3-0006ql-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJQJ1-0007wS-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:28 -0400 Original-Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:59964 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJQJ1-0007wD-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:27 -0400 Original-Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 6C9A0229AD; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 684E1229AC; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:24:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 69.60.117.94 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:89687 Archived-At: Probably slackware since you can choose to install it in the install process and since Slackware was the first commercial linux distro, the slackware team probably has more experience with emacs than other newer linux distros have managed to get over the years. On Sat, 23 Mar 2013, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Many distros do not provide emacs out of the box. Something of a slap in > the face, and unexpected. And annoying. Various distros handle emacs > differently. > > I like the way Gentoo handles emacs, and I may reinstall gentoo in the > future. Arch worked farily well. I would prefer to just leave it alone, > pretty much, and tolerate compiling it oneself. > > For now, what is the "best" distribution of GNU/Linux for running emacs? > > Alan D > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?