Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

"Jing Su @ Gmail" <Jing.Su.66@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Jing,

> I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date. However, since
> RHEL is one of the mainstream commercial distros, and is common on
> servers, it would be great if org-mode can be consistent with such
> ``industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ).

Emacs 21.4 is nearly 4 years old!  Org-mode uses quite a bunch of more
or less recent emacs features, so getting it fully working would be
quite a hassle with a lot of compatibility code.

Maybe an older org-mode version supports emacs 21.4 and has all features
you need.  But I cannot find a downloads page for old versions...

Or get the git version and use the revision before the commit
31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74.

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| commit 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74
| Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
| Date:   Tue Apr 21 14:00:24 2009 +0200
| 
|     End of Emacs 21 support.
`----

> System administrators will take risk to install unofficial org-mode,
> but most of them won't risk the whole server, i.e., risk their necks,
> for a newer but unofficial (according to RH) Emacs version.

You could compile and install emacs in your $HOME.  The INSTALL file
coming with it tells how to do that.

Bye,
Tassilo