From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Rauchenwald Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 20:21:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87mz0naxyf.fsf@sec.modprobe.de> References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178130082 8429 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 18:21:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 18:21:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 20:21:18 2007 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 1HjJRz-0001Qd-LN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:21:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjJYQ-0003mw-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjJYB-0003k3-R8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjJYA-0003hi-9M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjJYA-0003ha-5T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjJRi-00028P-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 14:20:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjJRV-0006mo-JO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:20:46 +0200 Original-Received: from 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at ([83.215.41.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:20:45 +0200 Original-Received: from its.sec by 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 May 2007 20:20:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83-215-41-131.bruck.dyn.salzburg-online.at User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:STayuQeJ0XFiLgGW1V1aazMzEjc= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:43515 Archived-At: Mark Woodward writes: > Hi all, > > As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I install Emacs 21 > or Emacs-snapshot? I would recommend the snapshot package, I have never had any problems with it. Plus, the gtk-Interface is prettier. (fetch emacs-snapshot-gtk to use it). I do not know how up-to-date the package is in Ubuntu, so having a look at the Bugs filed against it might be a good idea. > I'm using Ubuntu 7.04 and noticed some packages state emacs21 as a > dependency. So not sure if that means they're not compatible with the > snapshot version. What packages are this? I'm on Debian, I haven't seen such a package so far. BTW., you can install and use both versions without problems. Which one is used as default can then be configured via update-alternatives Tom