From: anne001 Date: 2005-11-18T22:42:18+09:00 Subject: Re: step by step tutorial on using emacs with Ruby > When you have installed the Tcl and Tk (which you may not > need to do if you already have them in fact: see if there is a 'tclsh' > and a 'wish' on your PATH I know my code works from the ruby terminal. so what I need for now is definitely installed. whereis tclsh and whereis wish: /usr/bin/tclsh and /usr/bin/wish >It should figure it out: ruby at the terminal knows where to look, but emacs does not know where to look for the library. >(so you may as well get expect while you are at it. I don't know what this means. thank you for your post. It sounds like I need to learn about unix, configs, path,,, Strange, so many people seem to use emacs, I thought it would be easy to get it functional.