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From: "Per Starbäck" <per@starback.se>
To: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 13:12:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADkQgvvB8hL_-KWn9q+U6bJ4b5tS8tut_jRM95xqdpUnFHVVmA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874ndpta6g.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

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2013/5/27 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org>

>
>
> (Aside: If Scientific Linux [sic] distributes such an old Emacs,
> what other problems may be hiding in the distro?  All of the main
> distros keep up with Emacs releases with a lag of only a couple weeks.
> Many provide a "bleeding edge" beta package as well.  The evidence is
> strong that Emacs is both a valuable package and one that is easy to
> keep up to date.  If Scientific Linux doesn't do so ....)
>
>
SL is more or less a copy of Red Hat where the latest release (6.4)
includes Emacs 23.1, so that's one major distro that doesn't keep up with
Emacs releases like that. But it also shows that the original poster has an
old version of the distro, so nothing to worry about.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-27 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-26 23:32 Emacs Display Recangular blocks instead of fonts Kumar, Amit
2013-05-27  2:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-27  2:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27  7:07   ` Kumar, Amit
2013-05-27 11:12   ` Per Starbäck [this message]
2013-05-27 13:24   ` James Cloos
2013-05-27 13:42     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-05-27 13:50       ` James Cloos
2013-05-27 14:10         ` Andreas Schwab
2013-05-27 14:32           ` James Cloos

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