From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs is stable software Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 11:14:47 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87o8dr56gl.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87wnsej54d.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 10:20:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ldqI8-0005cz-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 10:20:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38322 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldqI7-0001S8-6E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 04:20:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldqH8-0001Rb-Ph for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 04:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:50077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldqH3-0002gc-MM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 May 2021 04:19:26 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.229.60.206]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000046165.0000000060910367.00004413; Tue, 04 May 2021 01:18:46 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wnsej54d.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129411 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-05-04 11:08]: > Christopher Dimech wrote: > > > If he was using the older Emacs 25, that error will show up > > when trying to set two local variables. > > Okay, but why are you people using such old Emacs? Maybe for you is "old" but even that some version is older does not need to be known to user. Example is Emacs 25.3 in Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, it is there for few years, just installed on the system, it works. Emacs is stable. There are no big issues. In this house and my staff members are using that version without problems. Largest majority of users will never have any incidents with Emacs as it is stable software. Just like hundreds of millions of users will report bugs and develop it. The rest remains using it without complaints. I can imagine on many multi-user computers not every user has option to install a new version neither can know how to do it. And on personal computers is the same, not every user is able to install software, people use computers without updates for many years. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/