From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 23:52:36 -0600 Message-ID: References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178171595 7125 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 05:53:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 05:53:15 +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 May 03 07:53:11 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 1HjUFa-0002pv-Cx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:53:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUM4-00018f-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:59:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjULq-00014c-6t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjULo-00012Q-8A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:59:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjULo-00012N-28 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:59:36 -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 1HjUFJ-0004mE-4l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 01:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjUFA-00074s-Kg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:52:44 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:52:44 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:52:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) In-Reply-To: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> 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:43565 Archived-At: Mark Woodward wrote: > As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I install Emacs 21 > or Emacs-snapshot? Install Emacs 22. I'm not familiar with the GNU/Linux distribution packages, but I'd recommend the latest pretest version (as of today, 22.0.99) -- whether precompiled or built on your computer -- instead of an arbitrary CVS snapshot. > 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. > > The pipe dream would be a setup something like this: > http://platypope.org/yada/emacs-demo/ -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA