Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot?

[Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>]

On 15 May 2007 18:33:29 GMT, wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> FWIW, FreeBSD now includes an editors/emacs-devel port with the most
>> recent pretest tarball of Emacs 22.
>> 
>> I'm trying to test many of the packages I regularly use, but I can't
>> install *all* the Emacs extras on my laptop, so if you find the time to
>> test the editors/emacs-devel port, please do test it.
>> 
>> If there are problems with the FreeBSD Ports version of Emacs 22, please
>> report them.  Your comments, bug reports, suggestions and any help you
>> can give with the integration of Emacs 22 into FreeBSD are going to be
>> invaluable in making sure that the package/port reaches a stable state.
>> This way, when Emacs 22 becomes the officially released version of GNU
>> Emacs, we will be in a good shape for making the current
>> editors/emacs-devel port the _default_ Emacs port on FreeBSD too :)
>
> I will do so.  Note that the specific problem I experienced on Windows is
> with editing remote files, and that because I seldom do this on Unix-type
> platforms (except via NFS), I am unlikely to notice any problems in the
> area.

Ok, thanks :)

If you do find problems, MAINTAINER= should list my email address (the
same as this post), so just drop me a note and I'll either handle it
through email or guide you through the process of opening a bug report
in our issue tracking system.

- Giorgos