From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: 12 May 2007 18:51:24 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lkg5y28l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <854pmrtjol.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200705120631.l4C6VPlt006033@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178998369 22442 80.91.229.12 (12 May 2007 19:32:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:32:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 21:32:48 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 1HmxKg-00052D-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 21:32:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmxSE-0001fc-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 15:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net biZ9VCv0IztNPzHFky6nhQ3lcwuyblNdOpXOFN+ELBE7Me0l6w User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148334 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:43927 Archived-At: Maciej Katafiasz wrote: > Den Sat, 12 May 2007 08:31:25 +0200 skrev Xavier Maillard: > >> If I was not coding modes/packages for GNU Emacs, I would have >> probably sticked to GNU Emacs 21.x, for sure. > > Using Emacs 21.x now is simply silly. With 22 being almost there, it's as > much, or more stable than 21.x, and it has *tons* of overall improvements, So, you didn't see my response to another post in this thread, mentioning that I'm having problems editing remote files with the current Emacs 22 on Windows? No doubt there is a solution a solution to this, but no, using Emacs 21 is *not* "simply silly". Apart from that, Emacs 21 is still the version I get with two other systems I regularly work on - FreeBSD and Debian GNU/Linux. (Debian Etch - just recently sanctioned as the new "stable" Debian - of course comes with the "stable" version of Emacs - version 21.) > from small things like better default keybindings to wholly new modes like > CUA and GDBA being integrated into stock Emacs, vastly better Unicode > support (you no longer need mule-ucs for it to work reliably) and prettier > looks (with GTK+ 2). Whatever your arguments are, they simply don't hold > water for anyone who isn't tied to 21.x by specific package compatibility > issues.