Hmm, not sure why I assumed Windows. Probably because at the time I switched away from Windows to the liberation of the Unix commandline I never even thought of

Hmm, not sure why I assumed Windows. Probably because at the time I switched away from Windows to the liberation of the Unix commandline I never even thought of checking whether Code::Blocks or Dev-C++ ran under GNU/Linux. I have a custom .emacs file (predicated to work on Windows/Linux/Mac and several emacs versions and including a function to install all the custom packages I need) and other config files like .bashrc in a git repo fr quick setup. Having to compile emacs yourself would be hugely frustrating though. I've never gone that far. I use TRAMP instead :)