Re: [off-topic] emacs23 or emacs-snapshot-gtk (Ubuntu)

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:

>> I have been using the emacs-snapshot package for a long time, since the 
>> era of Ubuntu 7.04, and it worked fine and I got all the latest versions 
>> of emacs with it. Now, I just installed 9.10 from scratch, and when I 
>> search for emacs on apt-cache, I get the following relevant packages:
>> 
>>  * emacs23
>>  * emacs-snapshot-gtk
>> 
>> The emacs-version for emacs23 returns:
>> 
>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2) of 
>> 2009-10-15 on yellow, modified by Debian"
>> 
>> For emacs-snapshot-gtk, I get:
>> 
>> "GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0) of 
>> 2009-09-27 on crested, modified by Debian"
>> 
>> Which one would be the most recent version (or better package to use)?
>> 
> I had some problems using emacs23 in Karmic. Several errors loading my 
> .emacs and a non functional emacs-lisp menu. Using the ppa from 
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa everything works as 
> expected using the same .emacs.
>
> Ian.
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This fixes the missing menus for me:

#!/bin/bash
# edit
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c $@