From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 22:20:46 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200705032020.l43KKkqJ004575@localhost.localdomain> References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178228049 14462 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 21:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 23:34:08 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 1HjiwB-0008Rf-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 23:34:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjj2k-0002qB-1J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 17:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjj2V-0002nA-RY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 17:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjj2U-0002m0-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 17:40:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjj2U-0002lv-Au for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 17:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hjivu-0003Nj-6p; Thu, 03 May 2007 17:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 565CE5979B; Thu, 3 May 2007 23:33:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1001@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zogzog.home (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l43KKkH7004578; Thu, 3 May 2007 22:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: (from zedek@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l43KKkqJ004575; Thu, 3 May 2007 22:20:46 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: zedek set sender to xma@gnu.org using -f In-reply-to: <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 03 May 2007 11:14:29 +0200) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.51.1 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.398, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.00, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:43623 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > Hi Mark, > > As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I install Emacs 21 > or Emacs-snapshot? > > You'd better stick with the current stable aka GNU Emacs 21.4 It is so much worse in utf-8 support alone that I wonder what you base that recommendation on. Snapshot is a development version whereas GNU Emacs 21 is a *stable* version. Xavier