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Episode: 868
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Title: HPR0868: Emacs Console
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0868/hpr0868.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 03:47:20
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Good day and welcome to this edition of Hacker Public Radio.
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Today is 22 November.
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I'm getting ready to start my Thanksgiving mode.
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We've already got the turkey and eggnog and all that stuff that we need for Thanksgiving.
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What I wanted to talk to today about is that I had promised Ken Fallon when I went to
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the log camp that I would start a command line kind of thing.
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What we can do from the console and such things.
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I had been running my stuff on a slug because you really want to learn how to do stuff from the command line.
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A slug is a really good way to do it.
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I have an NSL U2 slug that's a MIPS processor and it runs...
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I have it run in that.
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It runs the debut in 5-0.
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I think there's a 6-0 but I'm not really ready to go to 6-0 on that yet.
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The command still work and it's not... it's behind the firewall and so...
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And it's still updates its packages that it has just fine.
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So we don't... I'm not going for the latest and greatest on this.
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But what I didn't do is I installed Alpine.
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I installed SC and I installed EMAX on this console thing.
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And I was listening loosely to Clot 2.
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He had a EMAX podcast and not to steal anything from Clot 2.
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He's quite fine gentlemen and everything.
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But I had some things to add and some things to reinforce that he said.
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First of all, I've been using Nano and I've been using Nano for about eight years, nine years in Linux.
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And it's my primary editor.
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And the reason that I like it is that my very first ever computer experience was a connection to a AT&T Unix server.
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I had a terminal and... you know, I typed...
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Pine was my mail client and to me Nano looks a lot like Pine.
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And I was able to... you know, I had the menu at the bottom and I was able to do everything with it.
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Now when EMAX comes up on the... on the... the slug, there is no menu.
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You can press of 10, but when you're in a console, F10 just brings up the console menu.
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And so you really need to know what it is with your doing with VI or EMAX or anything like that.
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Whereas with Nano, it's sort of dumb proof. You can get it done.
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But I took Clot 2's advice in addition to putting it on the slug, which was console only.
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I installed the graphical GTK version of EMAX on my... on my Ubuntu netbook.
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And I noticed immediately, you know, the full feature set with that graphical interface, right?
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I brought up the calendar and the moon phases and there's a calculator function in there.
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And I understood what he was talking about about the Scratchpad.
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And, you know, I was able to have these buffers, eight or nine buffers open all at once.
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And so it was a much cleaner experience for me.
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And then when I went back to the terminal, you know, I was doing...
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You know, for me, the biggest thing is to exit, to be able to type the command to EMAX and then to at least exit from it.
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Right? And so, you know, I tried it a bunch of times and I finally figured out exactly how to make the keystroke.
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So you have to go Ctrl-C and our Ctrl-X and then you have to press C and then you have to press C again and then it exits itself or Ctrl-C again.
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And it exits itself. And it was quite a process because it's not menu driven in the console.
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And I'm sure there might be a way to get the menu up, but I'm not 100% for sure about that.
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So, as Clot 2 goes through the EMAX, I will probably document my journey with the EMAX as well.
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And I guess the big thing to come from this is that you really need to get the download of the manual.
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That's the first thing. It comes PDF. It comes free. I tried to buy the book from the SFP-Sophware Foundation, but they don't sell it.
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It really is a book anymore. And then you have to, you know, go to some websites and, you know, start doing the commands.
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And right now, I'm just on the start it and exit it from the console. And I haven't really done anything else.
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Hold on just a second, y'all.
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So, probably the best website to get help at it. It's www.gnu.org slash s slash EMAX and then slash.
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Again, and you can do it. I know that Clot 2 talked a lot about add-ons and stuff, but in the Ubuntu repository, at least I didn't find a lot of add-ons.
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And, you know, I did the Google search and it seemed like there was a lot of eclips things, but I haven't found the sites yet for all these add-ons that he was talking about.
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But it came, at least the GDK version that I downloaded from Ubuntu, had a lot of very interesting things that I mentioned earlier.
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Alrighty, well, y'all have a great time and I hope y'all enjoy yourselves to share to BP. If you have any questions, you can email me at JWP5 at hotmail.com. Thank you very much.
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