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Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x)
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Source and compiling instructions for old version of Emacs (< 19.x) |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:21:52 -0400 |
I'm working on some research projects on the history of text editor
technologies and more generally the early days of the free software
movement. As part of that research I would like to compile, on a
contemporary Linux distribution,
Linux is a kernel. Linux alone is not a sufficient platform to run
any version of GNU Emacs. You probably mean a GNU/Linux distribution,
which consists of the GNU system and Linux together.
Please don't call the GNU system "Linux" -- it is unfair to us
and it is harmful to our work.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation
of this, and http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html for the
historical background.
Someone, FSF staff I think, found a copy of Emacs 16 for me a few
months ago. If you promise never to call the whole system "Linux", I
will ask them to dig it up for you.