From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is emacs in any linux base? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:55:30 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <30768d6b-57c9-4cba-a3a9-f9d185ba693a@t2g2000pbg.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333446965 18973 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2012 09:56:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 09:56:05 +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 11:56:03 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 1SF0T3-0006If-MO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:56:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0T3-0008OQ-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0St-0008My-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:55:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0Sn-0006CZ-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60222) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0Sn-0006CK-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 05:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SF0Sj-00066S-G0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:55:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:55:41 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:55:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8hraAAn6Bih/xLXU5JgRuU1PB8M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:84288 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > On Mar 23, 7:23 pm, Chiron > >> >> You've spent considerable text trying to explain why emacs isn't included >> in the base distro, and why it's unmaintained.  Fortunately, you're >> simply wrong about it.  emacs *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 > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=emacs+ubuntu+package# --> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/emacs