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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 22 compatibility
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:57:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehiq62qe.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10228.1355612445@alphaville> (Nick Dokos's message of "Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:00:45 -0500")

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Why are they still using emacs-22?

University students and employees.

Sometimes back I was investigating hosting for personal files.  The site
runs a version of FreeBSD version and had Emacs 22 on their servers.
When I requested that they upgrade their Emacs to 23 or 24 they refused
citing some reason why they /had/ to downgrade.

It has something to do with their site architecture not supporting
/dev/tty in their ssh environment.  Apparently some changes in Emacs 23
- may be Emacs server (or is it the emacsclient?) - that relies on use
of /dev/tty.  In short, external constraints.

Also XEmacs seem to be lagging behind severely.  See this recent thread:
http://list-archive.xemacs.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2012-September/023201.html

I am wondering what makes people continue using their XEmacses.
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-16  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-15 21:25 Emacs 22 compatibility Achim Gratz
2012-12-15 23:00 ` Nick Dokos
2012-12-16  4:27   ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2012-12-16  7:18     ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-18 15:22     ` Bastien
2012-12-18 17:44       ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-18 22:10         ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-12-18 23:29           ` Bastien
2012-12-19  6:46             ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-12-19  9:42               ` Bastien
2012-12-19  9:21             ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-19  9:41               ` Bastien
2012-12-19 10:18                 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-24 12:53                   ` Bastien
2012-12-19 18:54                 ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-19 19:13                   ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-19 19:20                     ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-24 12:52                     ` Bastien
2012-12-19 19:13                   ` Achim Gratz
2012-12-24 13:03                   ` Bastien
2012-12-19 19:02                 ` Achim Gratz

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