Re: Google Cloud Platform's Cloud Shell has Emacs installed by default.

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Galen Boyer <galendboyer@gmail.com> writes:

> The Emacs version installed on Google's Cloud Shell is:
>
> GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of 2023-02-23, modified by
> Debian
>
> Cloudshell intro:
>
> Each GCP "Google Cloud Platform" userid has a home directory somewhere
> in Google's file land.  One most likely will never know where this
> magical hard-drive is, but we do know that it affords us a Linux
> interface that is within the Browser. A couple of steps from that point
> and the Cloud Shell can get disconnected from the browswer and be turned
> into a stand-alone frame very much like someone's Telnet session, or
> maybe looks more like an X-Window.
>

Can you provide step-by-step instructions on how to get to the
stand-alone frame?  It is not readily apparent from simply connecting to
the cloud shell.  Readers of this list are more likely able to help with
the problem if they are able to recreate the environment in which you
are working.

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