Emacs 18 or 19.
[This version has been somewhat edited from the last-posted version
-(as of January 1999) for inclusion in the Emacs distribution.]
+(as of February 1999) for inclusion in the Emacs distribution.]
The FAQ is posted (in five parts) to reduce the noise level in the
gnu.emacs.help newsgroup (which is also the help-gnu-emacs mailing list)
prefer to read the FAQ in a single file, see question 22.
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- Time-stamp: <1998-11-15 12:37:16 reuven>
+ Time-stamp: <1999-02-10 18:44:04 reuven>
Notation Used in FAQ
format. Texinfo source for the manual (along with pregenerated Info
files) is available at
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/elisp-manual-20-2.5.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-manual-20-2.5.tar.gz
and all mirrors of gnudist.gnu.org (See question 92 for a list). See
question 17 if you want to install the Info files, or question 18 if you
using the stand-alone "makeinfo" program, available as part of the latest
Texinfo package at
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo-3.12.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-3.12.tar.gz
and all mirrors of gnudist.gnu.org (see question 92 for a list).
* Xinfo, a stand-alone version of the Info program that runs under X
Windows. You can get it at
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/xinfo-1.01.01.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/xinfo/xinfo-1.01.01.tar.gz
and all mirrors of gnudist.gnu.org (See question 92 for a list).
release has been part of the Emacs distribution as etc/FAQ (see
question 4).
- * Via the World Wide Web. Point your favorite Web browser at:
+ * Via the World Wide Web. A hypertext version is available at
- http://www.geek-girl.com/emacs/faq/index.html
-
- This is an old version, but it works.
+ http://www.lerner.co.il/emacs/
* Via anonymous ftp and e-mail from rtfm.mit.edu (and its mirror in
Europe), the main repository for FAQs and other items posted to
available. On gnudist.gnu.org, the main GNU distribution site, sources are
available at
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs-20.4.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-20.3.tar.gz
The above will obviously change as new versions of Emacs come out. For
instance, when Emacs 20.5 is released, it will most probably be
available at
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs-20.5.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/emacs-20.4.tar.gz
Again, you should use one of the mirror sites in question 92 (and
adjust the URL accordingly) so as to reduce load on gnudist.gnu.org.
The lispdir.el package has a function named submit-lcd-entry which will
help you with this.
- See question 90 regarding non-maintenance of the archive.
+ Note that maintenance of the archive is currently very slow.
92: Where can I get other up-to-date GNU stuff?
Read the files etc/DISTRIB and etc/FTP for more information.
- The following sites are all mirror images of the GNU distribution area:
-
- ASIA: ftp://cair.kaist.ac.kr/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/gnu,
- ftp://utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ftpsync/prep,
- ftp://ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/pub/gnu
-
- AUSTRALIA: ftp://archie.au/gnu (archie.oz or archie.oz.au for ACSnet)
-
- AFRICA: ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/gnu
-
- EUROPE: ftp://ftp.denet.dk/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/pub/comp/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu,
- ftp://isy.liu.se/pub/gnu,
- ftp://nic.switch.ch/mirror/gnu,
- ftp://archive.eu.net/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/software/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.ieunet.ie/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.sunet.se:/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/gnu,
- ftp://irisa.irisa.fr/pub/gnu,
- ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu,
- ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/uunet/systems/gnu
-
- SOUTH AMERICA: ftp.unicamp.br:/pub/gnu
-
- WESTERN CANADA: ftp.cs.ubc.ca:/mirror2/gnu
-
- USA: ftp://col.hp.com/mirrors/gnu,
- ftp://f.ms.uky.edu/pub3/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep,
- ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.kpc.com/pub/mirror/gnu,
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/systems/gnu,
- ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU,
- ftp://jaguar.utah.edu/gnustuff,
- ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/gnu,
- ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu,
- ftp://vixen.cso.uiuc.edu/gnu,
- ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu
-
- The directory at ftp.uu.net is a mirror of gnudist.gnu.org except that files
- larger than one megabyte are split into multiple parts. If you have
- trouble transferring large files, you should try that site. A file
- normally named "XXX" is split into files XXX-split/part[0-9][0-9], and
- there will be a file named XXX-split/README which contains the list of
- parts (especially helpful when FTP-ing by e-mail), their checksums, and
- reassembly instructions.
+ A list of sites mirroring gnudist.gnu.org can be found at
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
93: What is the difference between Emacs and XEmacs (formerly "Lucid
Emacs")?
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/emacs.README
- And the binary itself is available in the files
-
- ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/em1934*.zip
+ And the binary itself is available in the files em1934*.zip in the
+ directory
- where * indicates that you should retrieve all of the files beginning
- with "em1934" and ending with "zip".
+ ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/
If you prefer to compile Emacs for yourself, you will need a 386 (or
better) processor, and are running MS-DOS 3.0 or later. According to Eli
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/comp.emacs/
Note that while many of these programs look similar to Emacs, they often
- lack certain features, particularly as the Emacs Lisp extension language.
+ lack certain features, particularly the Emacs Lisp extension language.
95: Where can I get Emacs for Microsoft Windows, Windows 9x, or Windows
NT?
Emacs 19.33 is ported for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1, and is available at:
- ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/apps/emacs/v.19.33/
+ ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/editors/emacs/v19.33/
97: Where can I get Emacs for my Atari ST?
Java code. You can get the latest version from the Emacs Lisp Archive;
see question 90 for details. A FAQ for cc-mode is available at
- http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/cc-mode.html/Top.html
+ http://www.python.org/emacs/cc-mode/
103: What is the IP address of XXX.YYY.ZZZ?
104: VM (View Mail) -- another mail reader within Emacs, with MIME support
Author: Kyle Jones <kyle@uunet.uu.net>
- Latest version: 6.62
+ Latest version: 6.67
Anonymous FTP:
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/vm/vm.tar.gz
+ ftp://ftp.wonderworks.com/pub/vm/vm.tar.gz
Newsgroups and mailing lists:
Informational newsgroup/mailing list:
gnu.emacs.vm.info (newsgroup)
Author: Dave Gillespie <daveg@csvax.cs.caltech.edu>
Latest version: 2.02f
Anonymous FTP:
- ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/calc-2.02f.tar.gz
+ ftp://gnudist.gnu.org/pub/gnu/calc/calc-2.02f.tar.gz
NOTE: Unlike Wolfram Research, Dave has never threatened to sue
anyone for having a program with a similar command language to
Calc. :-)
auc-tex@iesd.auc.dk (for submissions)
auc-tex_mgr@iesd.auc.dk (auc-tex development team)
World Wide Web:
- http://www.iesd.auc.dk/~amanda/auctex/
+ http://sunsite.auc.dk/auctex/
109: BBDB -- personal Info Rolodex integrated with mail/news readers
111: W3-mode -- A World Wide Web browser inside of Emacs
Author: Bill Perry <wmperry@spry.com>
- Latest version: 4.0pre.31
+ Latest version: 4.0pre.39
Anonymous FTP:
ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/elisp/w3/.betas/w3.tar.gz
Mailing lists:
Enhancement of Emacs. See question 84 for information on where to find
and download Emacs.
- The original MULE is available at
-
- ftp://sh.wide.ad.jp/JAPAN/mule/mule-19.33-delta.tar.gz
-
137: Where is an Emacs that can handle Semitic (right-to-left) alphabets?
Emacs 20 supports Hebrew characters (ISO 8859-8), but does not yet
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