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What I meant was that <esc>-x didn't get me anywhere. And neither did ctrl-X b or <esc>-b or ctrl-X 1. It looked like <esc><char> sequence were changed to <alt>-<char>.
I selected Emacs Holy, but I found myself using basically Vim (':' brought me to command buffer) and I had to use 'a', 'i' or 'o' to write anything. I checked the dot-file and the settings were consistent with my selections.
Slackware comes with emacs as a standard package. There's an elisp package manager (ELP) that can get elisp packages for you. M-x package-list-packages
Get the "gh-md" package which uses the Github API to render a buffer for you. M-x gh-md-export-buffer will write the results into an html file that you can view in your favorite browser. markdown mode is also available via ELP.
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