From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark Woodward Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 01:01:41 -0000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <133nlrl9aresnfc@corp.supernews.com> References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178390413 1249 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 18:40:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:40:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 20:40:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HkPAx-00078F-05 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 20:40:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkPHi-00079j-HN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 14:47:10 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-01!sn-xt-sjc-08!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: pan 0.120 (Plate of Shrimp) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148108 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 05 May 2007 14:45:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43750 Archived-At: Thanks all, On Wed, 02 May 2007 12:15:53 +0000, Mark Woodward wrote: > Hi all, > > As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I install Emacs 21 > or Emacs-snapshot? > > I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and noticed some packages state emacs21 as a > dependency. So not sure if that means they're not compatible with the > snapshot version. > > The pipe dream would be a setup something like this: > http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/ > > > thanks, > > Installed snapshot from the fiesty repositories for now. Now just have to learn how to use it ;-) PS - Xavier, the link shows a screencast of Emacs set up to handle Ruby code in a way I'd like to get it eventually. He explains how he's done it on another page, but that might have to wait ATM. As long as I can get used to the basics for now, I'll peck away at it after the Uni semester. thanks again, -- Mark