From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Updating to Emacs 24 Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4E8C6E26.3030003@easy-emacs.de> References: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317826118 18951 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2011 14:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:48:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 16:48:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBSlp-0004Xl-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39278 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBSlp-0002Zb-4S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:48:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBSlg-0002Xc-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBSlc-0001ly-DI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:57105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBSlc-0001li-2I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4dbc777f.pool.mediaWays.net [77.188.119.127]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LpNZt-1QfzZJ3zqX-00exaX; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:48:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.22) Gecko/20110907 SUSE/3.1.14 Thunderbird/3.1.14 In-Reply-To: <86ehysb91q.fsf@googlemail.com> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:b0l2Y2tEoRjdteKW3aBRELMMFPpHJtfTX938Et11P1E py5Z7S4OttbrOPkWp1ME8mRgJuLipMChWTERT4wmgffe/JFxbQ bR/CAxPqd0QnWJT4aaaNw3YH4sJkkWx9i8/dkroo7r+Md1j3ME VOPH/T53wxSsVr7yjLsqeX5z332JlVu/rv7D/zsaOe2sH/3hIA 67JLkndtwCXAdWaMeaR7pRIa9yBExXRJ8KyB3MWQ1VUTYPqQue xE3Cf/ZSHkWdJophUtER9yW9QW6Z0ue0vF9u982bv/FWjl5Z0N Lcn1ZLLgSAQuwCMa1cOe/iobAy2iPbpGIppBQQmxQhuR6t4kER jYjFhqqPyVV3QOfPay9JqmQjbmVf8/tyL4+jaelw3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82480 Archived-At: Am 05.10.2011 02:01, schrieb Thorsten: > Hi List, > I downloaded the Pretest version of Emacs 24, having Emacs 23.1.1 > installed on Ubuntu. Before I mess up my whole configuration, I thought > I rather ask a few (quite basic) questions here: > > 1. do I have to uninstall Emacs 23.1.1 before installing Emacs 24? > > 2. I load most .el files from my .emacs.de, which is in my Dropbox-folder > and therefore accesible from my Linux and my Win 7 machine, and not from the > /usr/share/emacs directories - will this configuration be messed up by > the new installation? > > 3. should I change from Ubuntu 32 to 64, are there no problems with the > 64bit version? > > 4. I would really like to try a minimal version of ubuntu 64 with stump-wm > and Emacs 24. Does anybody has experience with or even an example > configuration for this combination? > > Thanks for any tips > Cheers > Hi, should you have enough space: find it much more comfortable running different Emacsen locally. In some seldom cases loading a patched version from still another place. Cheers, Andreas