From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Do you recommend Emacs snapshot? Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:39:02 +0200 Message-ID: <87y56sbtjd.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379612386 631 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2013 17:39:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:39:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 19 19:39:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCf-0000Xm-RT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52429 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCf-00048m-FU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:39:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCN-00043p-Sm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCE-0006IP-Gc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53077) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCE-0006IF-9k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:39:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VMiCB-0007lB-Qm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 137.red-83-61-144.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.61.144.137]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:39:15 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 137.red-83-61-144.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2013 19:39:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.red-83-61-144.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YCxpHE/BMICPKQ5DE+sJ45pzRhw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93460 Archived-At: Jorge <1gato0a@gmail.com> writes: > Thank you for the information. For the moment, I have worked around the > aforementioned bug. But Emacs snapshot entices me. Is it reasonably stable? > Does it have important new functionality? Are there any regressions? If you are afraid of regressions, you shouldn't use the development version of Emacs (or any other software package.) Developers give early access to their software for receiving feedback in general and detecting bugs in particular. Emacs is no exception. Although it is very stable, you will see the occasional bug, experimental changes, work-in-progress features, third-party packages that won't work because they rely on undocumented features... Morale: if you don't have time to deal with those issues and help the developers to fix them, you'll better stick to an stable release and upgrade only when you see a strong reason for it.