On 5/9/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd@alkemio.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:41:35PM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > You can also install xemacs21, which can live happily alongside > emacs21, and has no dependencies on emacs21 (that I can see). ..., and is also not GNU Emacs.
And vim is not vi. The OP didn't say he wanted/needed GNU Emacs, he said he was trying to install emacs21. He can get essentially the same functionality with xemacs21 while waiting for emacs21 to be installable. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com