From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:01:39 +0300 Message-ID: <87lkg4d44s.fsf@moley.org> References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87mz0klq7i.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178290851 13133 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 15:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:00:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 17:00:46 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 1HjzH4-0001Ts-8k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzNh-0005gY-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzNU-0005bm-Bs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzNS-0005Zt-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzNS-0005Zj-OW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:07:22 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjzGo-0004AS-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 11:00:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjzGb-0006Pz-C8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:17 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:17 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:00:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3GIYJJcghIEvkAAWR91s4VHgZ3c= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:43664 Archived-At: Quoth Hadron : > Xavier Maillard writes: > >> 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. > > So? > > It's not like the snapshot is falling over every 3 seconds. I can second that, snapshot is incredibly stable for a development version. I've been using it for months (for the aforementioned UTF support) without a single noticeable hitch. As for the 21.4 versus snapshot debate, I believe I'm right in saying that a stable version needs to be installed before snapshot can be installed. On my Debian box at any rate, both are installed and I can choose to run whichever I like, or both simultaneously or... you get the point. In short, install them both, but use snapshot. It works perfectly as far as I can tell, so why not use it? Sebastian