From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:34:19 -0500 Message-ID: <877hghuwb8.fsf@guruji.demimonde> References: <137428.79801.qm@web63005.mail.re1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289662508 9730 80.91.229.12 (13 Nov 2010 15:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:35:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 13 16:35:04 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHI88-0001S0-BA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:35:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PHI87-0000Dy-I5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:35:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54591 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PHI7g-0000DP-Jz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:34:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHI7e-0001AE-Ex for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:34:36 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47802) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PHI7e-00019k-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 10:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PHI7c-00018n-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from 76.177.51.182 ([76.177.51.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from tyler.smith by 76.177.51.182 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:34:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.177.51.182 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lZgYOBzH8fEn5h7kmC8zFKqpkc4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/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:75363 Archived-At: Maindoor writes: > |But now since emacs itself supports anti-aliasing fonts, I'm now | > |left with a dilemma, which one to use. | > |So next I went to find proof of which is latest and bleeding edge. | > |and saw the version. emacs-snapshot is of course the | > |latest(23.1.50.1) | > |but uses the old GTK+ (2.18.0) version. The emacs package | > |version is older (23.1.1) but uses a newer GTK+ (2.20.0) version. | > |Can someone provide the pros and cons of each and which | > |one might be better to use ? | The difference between 23.1.50.1 and 23.1.1 are unlikely to be noticeable to you unless you already have a specific problem with 23.1.1. Similarly, I don't think you'd notice any difference between GTK+ 2.18.0 and 2.20.0. Just pick one. If you are really concerned about using the bleeding edge, you can get the latest development version here: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/ It's not too difficult to compile it from source yourself, and it seems to work just fine. The latest version is somewhere beyond 24.0.50.1 (I haven't updated in a few weeks). Cheers, Tyler