From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:35:03 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87aalelnyg.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291886333 10257 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 09:18:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:18:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 10:18:49 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQceG-00081q-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:18:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58893 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQceF-0005HV-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:18:47 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net a5ADqsnN5u6wvI2WAQrnKwXz01lh9OeNxYtGho7BQ8QD03XFFm Cancel-Lock: sha1:YWUzNWMwMzAwMjE0OTYwZWU0MTI5OGY5OTRjMGM4OTE2NGJkOWI2Nw== sha1:XRMxKDVXSlPDyS/I1voi7f/OzXQ= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:182376 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:76913 Archived-At: Maindoor writes: > Hi, > I've been using emacs-snapshot for a while for anti-aliasing support. > But now since emacs itself supports anti-aliasing fonts, I'm now > left with a dilemma, which one to use. > So next I went to find proof of which is latest and bleeding edge. > and saw the version. emacs-snapshot is of course the > latest(23.1.50.1) > but uses the old GTK+ (2.18.0) version. The emacs package > version is older (23.1.1) but uses a newer GTK+ (2.20.0) version. > Can someone provide the pros and cons of each and which > one might be better to use ? Depends on your usage pattern. Why not try them and see for yourself which you prefer. In my case, I compile my emacs myself. Do you want my compile-emacs script? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.