Edrx's page and home stuff
This is the main "README" file.
Eduardo Ochs, 2005oct16
Latest version: <http://angg.twu.net/README>
      htmlized: <http://angg.twu.net/README.html>


Instructions (for debian sarge/sid):

  apt-get install emacs21 zsh                     ;# essential
  apt-get install fvwm xterm                      ;# essential for running on X
  apt-get install expect emacs21-el elisp-manual  ;# almost essential
  apt-get install grep-dctrl w3m-el               ;# not essential
  apt-get install emacs-lisp-intro                ;# not essential

  # If your username is "me":
  mkdir -p /home/me/tmp/edrx/     ;# but can be any dir
  cd       /home/me/tmp/edrx/
  wget http://angg.twu.net/edrx.tgz
  tar -xvzf edrx.tgz
  ./run-zsh

After `run-zsh' you'll be running zsh with HOME=/home/me/tmp/edrx,
SHELL=/path/to/zsh, etc, and with a prompt like:

  /home/me/tmp/edrx(me:ma)# _
  \---------------/ ^  ^
      current       |  \------ two first chars of machine name (hostname)
     directory   username


Then run `prep-home-cdd'. That just creates some empty dirs and
symlinks, and only needs to be run once. Then you'll be in my
environment. Note that my .zshrc is *huge* - it defines many shell
functions and aliases.

See: <http://angg.twu.net/tourism.html>
     <http://angg.twu.net/edrx1.html>
     (find-angg "edrx1")
     (find-angg ".zshrc" "a")


The rest of this file is very old and doesn't apply anymore.
--snip--snip--snip--snip--
Version: 2001may30.

This file is here (i.e., inside edrx.tgz) mainly to tell you what to
do with the stuff that you have just unpacked. Note: the instructions
below are for Linux, and when things get too specific they will
generally be referring to a system running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
("potato"). There are some notes at the end about using this with
FreeBSD and Hurd, though.

Suppose that you have downloaded the package and unpacked it with the
following commands (you can use other directories, this is just an
example):

  # Download to ~/edrx.tgz (the .tgz is less than 950KB):
  cd
  wget http://angg.twu.net/edrx.tgz

  # Unpack in /tmp/edrx/:
  rm -Rv /tmp/edrx/
  mkdir  /tmp/edrx/
  cd     /tmp/edrx/
  tar -xvzf ~/edrx.tgz

Then you can use /tmp/edrx/ as a home directory containing my
initialization scripts (.zshrc, .emacs, etc); the following command
will start zsh "on /tmp/edrx/", and you'll be on a copy of my
environment on your machine:

  HOME=/tmp/edrx zsh

and from inside this zsh you can run these very impressive demos, that
simulate (more explanations in a moment!) a user interacting with
screen, emacs and a shell; the first demo ("demo emacs1") is an
unfinished basic Emacs tutorial, and the second one ("demo gdbk")
shows how a user that understands the e-script tricks (hyperlinks,
saving blocks of code as shell or gdb scripts, etc) would use a
certain e-script to compile a C program and single-step through it
using gdb inside Emacs.