Just letting you people know that emacs does work from easy debian =D.

However when in emacs23 in gtk, the mode line does not appear. (Had this same problem when emacs23 first came out using openbox on archlinux). Could be a X problem.

emacs23-nox is my preferred package anyways as you can customise the console bar to show buttons you need. Use the esc key combinations... ie: esc v to page up, or get an actual x going.

Esc - x gives you M-x.


Bonus points - copy one of the .desktop files from (can't remember where.. just find it ) to create an application listing so you can use as a shortcut on your desktop.

Then its simply "sudo debian emacs" as command to execute in the .desktop file.


Its possible to use bash by symbolic linking from the easy deb into your own path. Most programs require other shared libraries and I wouldn't go around linking those...