From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Special character Emacs Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:21:21 -0400 Message-ID: <874p83n3ys.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> References: <85ej78dg0k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212952275 14011 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2008 19:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:11:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 08 21:11:58 2008 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 1K5QIj-0006O5-4h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:11:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59818 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QHw-0004yo-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QGN-00042p-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:09:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QGJ-00040w-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:09:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50385 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K5QGJ-00040q-P3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:09:07 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpsrv0.isis.unc.edu ([152.2.1.139]:36762 helo=smtp.unc.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K5QGF-0004Vd-IF; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:09:03 -0400 Original-Received: from edna (cpe-071-070-216-139.nc.res.rr.com [71.70.216.139]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.unc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m58J7xtm022730; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:08:06 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:54624 Archived-At: David Kastrup writes: > adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > >> Andreas Wittmann writes: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> i'm using Emacs 21.4.1 with ubuntu hardy, >> >> That's a pretty old version. If this is your system, try the >> emacs-snapshot package, or contact your administrator and tell him to >> get with the program ;) > > Hardy has emacs22-gtk (for example). No need for the snapshot except > that it is cool. Even better. I'll add, as I often do, that I use Emacs 23 on Slackware 12.1, updated weekly and I have had no major problems. The one time I had a weird error, I just rolled back to the previous week's package. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson (303) 880-3109 Public key: http://pgp.mit.edu Homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj Please read http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj/roe.html