ah! superb! i really miss abbrev.

as for the kit... i have absolutely no idea. i'm using kubuntu, so
what i did to get a kit was:

alien --to-deb -scripts bemacs-7.2-246.redhat90.i386.rpm

does that help?

jack




--- In barrysemacs@yahoogroups.com, Barry Scott <barry@...> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2008, at 19:32, jack wrote:
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> > i have abbrev loaded. i type an abbreviation and press the space bar.
> > emacs just disappears instantly.
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> I've found and fixed the problem. I can make Fedora Core 4 or Fedora
> 8 rpm is that what you need?
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> Barry
>