From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:30:17 +0200 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200705051330.l45DUHT9006744@localhost.localdomain> References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87mz0klq7i.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178377462 28854 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2007 15:04:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:04:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Hadron Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 05 17:04:21 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 1HkLo0-0006su-TE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 17:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLul-0001Qs-Hc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 11:11:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLuZ-0001Qn-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 11:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLuW-0001Qb-Ra for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 11:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HkLuW-0001QU-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 11:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HkLnl-0004yg-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 11:04:01 -0400 Original-Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 79BD75A12F; Sat, 5 May 2007 17:03:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1001@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l45DUHTE006747; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: (from zedek@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l45DUHT9006744; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:30:17 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: zedek set sender to xma@gnu.org using -f In-reply-to: <87mz0klq7i.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Hadron on Fri, 04 May 2007 14:37:37 +0200) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.51.1 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.398, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.00, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:43740 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard writes: > Xavier Maillard writes: > > > Hi Mark, > > > > As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I install Emacs 21 > > or Emacs-snapshot? > > > > You'd better stick with the current stable aka GNU Emacs 21.4 > > It is so much worse in utf-8 support alone that I wonder what you base > that recommendation on. > > Snapshot is a development version whereas GNU Emacs 21 is a > *stable* version. So? It's not like the snapshot is falling over every 3 seconds. What is a snapshot then ? When I was using Debian GNU/linux, there was one snapshot per week. Xavier