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Pascal J. Bourguignon  
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 More options Jan 4 2012, 3:12 pm
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:12:16 +0100
Local: Wed, Jan 4 2012 3:12 pm
Subject: Re: newbie needs to be bailed out

Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> writes:
> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> writes:

>> Am 04.01.2012 um 20:22 schrieb Kim Young:

>>> 1. What is the command to determine the version of emacs that is provided with lion?

>> emacs --version

>>> 2. How do I enable color highlighting for syntext?

>> Use a colour terminal!

> Never used a mac but wouldn't the X or Native AquaEmacs be a better
> choice.  At least a new user would have an easy to use
> menubar to look for things.

Running emacs on X would good.  Notice that the emacs distributed by
Apple is not compiled with X support: you'd have to compile your own
emacs.

Otherwise Aquamacs would be bad.  
The good emacs to run on Aqua is http://emacsformacosx.com

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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