From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Resources for an old newbie ?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 07:31:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qj7397n.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87353ndhzg.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> And the second tip just adds even more barriers at this
> beginner level. It might be fun and exciting to use the
> newest sources, but this is definitely not related to
> learning Emacs - it's distracting and unnecessary unless you
> are very excited and have a lot of time. One can do this
> later or. It's not good to advice people to do this -
> especially beginners.
People tend to care about 1-3 programs, if one of those are
Emacs then I think one should get the newest version
and source, definitely. It isn't difficult, actually.
Because, the problem is the repositories are so behind.
For example in the Debian repos, xemacs21 is the most "recent"
version available ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-23 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-22 0:44 Resources for an old newbie ? Frederick Bartlett
2023-05-22 0:50 ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-05-22 1:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-22 1:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-22 6:33 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-05-23 0:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-23 5:31 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2023-05-23 20:19 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-25 0:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-23 23:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-25 1:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-26 3:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-27 5:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-28 1:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 21:23 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-24 4:25 ` tomas
2023-05-25 1:25 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-25 4:01 ` tomas
2023-05-26 1:26 ` David Masterson
2023-05-26 3:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-26 4:13 ` Robby Zambito
2023-05-27 4:09 ` David Masterson
2023-05-27 5:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:13 ` David Masterson
2023-05-27 5:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:14 ` David Masterson
2023-05-27 17:48 ` Robby Zambito
2023-05-29 22:23 ` David Masterson
2023-05-28 2:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-28 21:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-29 22:21 ` David Masterson
2023-05-29 22:52 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-05-30 2:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-03 21:40 ` David Masterson
2023-05-30 23:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-31 3:12 ` Platon Pronko
2023-05-31 3:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-05-31 22:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-03 21:45 ` David Masterson
2023-06-03 22:03 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-03 22:39 ` David Masterson
2023-06-03 23:19 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04 1:00 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 1:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 2:15 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04 5:23 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 2:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 21:05 ` David Masterson
2023-06-06 16:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 3:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 21:01 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 5:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 7:08 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2023-06-04 20:35 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 7:26 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 7:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-04 10:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 20:07 ` David Masterson
2023-06-04 22:12 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-04 22:36 ` David Masterson
2023-06-05 20:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-05 20:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 10:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-04 20:23 ` David Masterson
2023-06-05 0:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-05 2:22 ` David Masterson
2023-06-05 2:59 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-06 1:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-06 16:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11 3:14 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 4:48 ` David Masterson
2023-06-11 6:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11 23:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 23:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-16 2:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-16 2:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 5:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-11 23:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2023-06-11 23:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-05 20:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-03 21:33 ` David Masterson
2023-05-26 4:28 ` tomas
2023-05-26 11:34 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-26 12:06 ` tomas
2023-05-26 14:11 ` Robert Pluim
2023-05-26 21:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2023-06-08 8:39 ` Emanuel Berg
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