Don't want to start an editor war - but I saw "stuck with KWrite". You don't need to be stuck with KWrite. I use KWrite as other people use notepad - for the quick file browse or edit. If you're looking for something in between KWrite and an IDE for hours of editing then try jedit. Don't let the j fool you. I've used it for c dev at work for a couple of years now - on linux. A pretty impressive piece of software and it's even FOSS. And now I better get off - this doesn't belong here. Claus On Wednesday 09 March 2005 00:58, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, Special thanks to Ingo Strauch and Johnathan Gurley for suggestions. I tried both rpm -ql xemacs-info-21.4.15-43 and rpm -qil *xemacs and both provoke the response: package ... is not installed
Related question: xemacs is an 'upmarket' version of emacs; does this mean that I should have installed emacs and then xemacs, or can I install xemacs only? I tried to install xemacs first and had problems, so I thought "Oh well, good old emacs will do" and so I tried to install it. Still no luck.
I am using Developer Studio at work on 'that' OS but on Linux I am stuck with kwrite - a bit slow for development. I really need emacs and want LaTex.
Thanks for your suggestions fellows; much appreciated. Regards, Colin
PS: I was told that I should "just hit reply"; are my responses okay? In his letter, ezmlm didn't explain how to 'reply' to a posting.
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 07:23, Ingo Strauch wrote:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 06:53:01 +1100
Colin Carter <colincarter@exemail.com.au> wrote:
Your suggestion worked, but unfortunately I always find that a solution with Linux just leads me to the next problem. rpm -q says that it is installed - but where?
rpm -ql xemacs-info-21.4.15-43
gives a list of all files belonging to this package.
From the root I do a find on *xemacs and get a little, a find on emacs* gave me 23 hits, a repeat of find on emacs* gave me 67 hits but in no way have I found any executable files.
Did you really use 'find'? If that's the case you might want to also try 'locate'. This of course only works when the files in question were already installed when the locate-database was last updated.
I noticed a lot of emacs/gnome stuff. I am only using kde: is this a problem?
Nope.
PS: I was chastised for posting this question under 'programming' (I thought that emacs was a developer's tool) and told I should post here.
I find it a bit strange that they suggested to post an RPM/emacs related question to the xfree mailinglist ;-) Just looking at the list names at http://lists.suse.com/archive/ it seems to me that kind of question would be best suited in linux-e. Not too strong an opinion, though.