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Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> 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.