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- From: lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Rick Gates)
- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: It all started with an idea...
- Message-ID: <7342@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:12:37 GMT
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- At the risk of flames, he steps in...
-
- Ok here's how it all started. See if this sounds familiar...
-
- I'm new to Unix, and I immediately hated both the default mailer, and
- vi. Whilst searching for another editor, I discovered that some
- previous sys administ. had installed Emacs. Two weeks later, I
- discovered the Rmail facility. What an improvement!
-
- But ever the dissatified one, it's a few months later, and some things
- are starting to bug me. In particular, I want yank-mail-original to
- use a single '>' for the fill prefix instead of an indent 3. No
- problem, I'll just get ahold of the elisp documentation, and figure
- out how to patch that puppy myself right?
-
- Now were getting down to it. Trouble is, the elisp documentation is
- written in a device-independent format called TeXInfo. No problem,
- that's what free software's all about right?
-
- So my next move is to get ahold of the TeXInfo docs from MIT, and try
- to install that. Well, no dice, at least partly because it tries to
- write to directories that I don't have write access to.
-
- Next stop, trying to get TeX, then LaTeX. Now I actally managed to
- get a copy to load onto my DOS 486, (called emTeX), but there's no
- Docs that tell how to use it.
-
- I checked all the FAQs I could find, both in comp.text, and
- comp.text.tex, and there's nothing that describes how to get up and
- running with all this. Aaaarrgh..
-
- To finally cut this off, question is, is there a simpler way that I
- can view/print/download/absorb the elisp docs?
-
- (More than) Nuff said!
-
- Rick Gates "Where little ideas blossom
- UC Santa Barbara into big problems..."
- lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
- --
- Rick Gates (805) 893-7225
- Dir. of Library Automation
- Univ. of California Library
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106 lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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