From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Petteri Hintsanen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on updating to 29.1 Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:46:47 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7434968f-40b1-ac55-c692-56a9b1c6a547@magnaspesmeretrix.org> <87350qj8fi.fsf@posteo.net> <83cyzthls8.fsf@gnu.org> <59e49b84-6a10-8c02-e990-34589deb8432@vodafonemail.de> <83r0o8g6aa.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="810"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: tin/2.4.5-20201224 ("Glen Albyn") (Linux/5.15.120-grsec-kapsi (x86_64)) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 13 14:47:49 2023 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 1qVAVZ-000Aam-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:47:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVAV2-0005A6-Vd; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:47:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVAUl-00057X-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qVAUi-0000lm-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:46:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qVAUf-0009Ut-Ru for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:46:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144787 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > The Emacs installation method is designed in a way that allows you to > have several Emacs versions installed on the same system. Only one of > them, the one you installed the last, is invoked by the name "emacs", > but all the others can be invoked by their numbered names, as in > "emacs-28.2" etc. An installed version of Emacs will only be removed > if you explicitly run "make uninstall" in the build directory of that > version. I was not aware of this feature. It sounds very useful indeed. Over the years, I have routinely done "make uninstall" before upgrading to new Emacs. Thanks, Petteri