On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, David E. Fox wrote:
> > Thanks David for the directory listings and for taking the trouble to
> > respond, but there is no sign of emacs in Linux Complete. I bought the
>
> It's hard to believe that a boxed set would not include files that are
> part of Mandrake 7.2.
It's a fact.
>
> > I can live with xemacs but I cannot reproduce all the key bindings which I
> > had been used to under emacs for ten years. As a hunt-and-peck typist I
> > prefer single keystroke shortcuts.
>
> Hmm. It doesn't read your emacs rc file, or do you not have one? Xemacs
should
Yes, it has followed me around for years.
> reproduce most if not all of the emacs bindings.
It does reproduce most of them but not one or two useful ones. I managed
to make some of them work by changing the keys. I suspect that there are
default bindings which need to be killed and reinstated.
>
> > missing such basic package files. I had noticed that ftp and telnet were
> > missing also. After bare ftp, gftp seems very awkward and clumsy.
>
> Well, they may not have been installed, but they definitely should be on the
> CD. For a command line ftp that is very good, you should check out ncftp.
Ta.
>
> > Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
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