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: 15 May 2007 18:33:29 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> <87646x4d7i.fsf@kobe.laptop> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179257547 16540 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2007 19:32:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:32:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 21:32:26 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 1Ho2kw-0004ha-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 21:32:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ho2sq-0006vX-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2007 15:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Trace: individual.net E5BydSrImqg+ZBxm/IJAfw3iihswRuC6pY1RK8+BkN1UXxPFH9 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148419 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:44014 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 12 May 2007 18:51:24 GMT, wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) wrote: >>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.) > > 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. - Will