Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[RealityMonster]

So I've checked these links: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled

and

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo

Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.

I can get 22.whatever of the latest CVS builds, but I dislike using
CVS binaries; you're never quite sure how stable they are.

I suppose I could build 21.4 from source, but I admit that that
prospect isn't super-exciting to me.

Any direction?

Thanks,
JS

Re: Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

RealityMonster wrote:
> So I've checked these links: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
> 
> and
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo
> 
> Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
> official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.
> 
> I can get 22.whatever of the latest CVS builds, but I dislike using
> CVS binaries; you're never quite sure how stable they are.
> 
> I suppose I could build 21.4 from source, but I admit that that
> prospect isn't super-exciting to me.
> 
> Any direction?


Emacs 22 is in late beta-test and very stable. The binaries that are 
uploaded are nearly always fine to use.

Re: Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[Matthew Flaschen]

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Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> RealityMonster wrote:
>> So I've checked these links:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo
>>
>> Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
>> official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.
>>
>> I can get 22.whatever of the latest CVS builds, but I dislike using
>> CVS binaries; you're never quite sure how stable they are.
>>
>> I suppose I could build 21.4 from source, but I admit that that
>> prospect isn't super-exciting to me.
>>
>> Any direction?
> 
> 
> Emacs 22 is in late beta-test and very stable. The binaries that are
> uploaded are nearly always fine to use.

I had trouble finding Win32 binaries for version 22, so I'll give you a
link: http://ntemacs.sourceforge.net/

Matthew Flaschen


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Re: Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
>> RealityMonster wrote:
>>> So I've checked these links:
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo
>>>
>>> Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
>>> official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.
>>>
>>> I can get 22.whatever of the latest CVS builds, but I dislike using
>>> CVS binaries; you're never quite sure how stable they are.
>>>
>>> I suppose I could build 21.4 from source, but I admit that that
>>> prospect isn't super-exciting to me.
>>>
>>> Any direction?
>>
>> Emacs 22 is in late beta-test and very stable. The binaries that are
>> uploaded are nearly always fine to use.
> 
> I had trouble finding Win32 binaries for version 22, so I'll give you a
> link: http://ntemacs.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Matthew Flaschen


The link to EmacsWiki has more.

Re: Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[Glenn Morris]

"RealityMonster" wrote:

> So I've checked these links:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
>
> and
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo
>
> Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
> official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.

Any package that works on 21.4 will work on 21.3. Unless it
specifically checks for 21.4, but that would be very silly. The
differences between 21.3 and 21.4 were: one-line fix in movemail.
That's it. So if you're not using movemail with "a malicious POP
server", there's zero difference between 21.3 and 21.4.

Re: Getting new versions of emacs for windows, ie. post 21.4

[weber]

On 21 fev, 23:59, Glenn Morris <rgm+n...@stanford.edu> wrote:
> "RealityMonster" wrote:
> > So I've checked these links:
> >http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled
>
> > and
>
> >http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs-en?CategoryWThirtyTwo
>
> > Mew kindly asks that I use versions subsequent to 21.4, but the
> > official gnu versions only go up to 21.3.
>
> Any package that works on 21.4 will work on 21.3. Unless it
> specifically checks for 21.4, but that would be very silly. The
> differences between 21.3 and 21.4 were: one-line fix in movemail.
> That's it. So if you're not using movemail with "a malicious POP
> server", there's zero difference between 21.3 and 21.4.

I've been using GNU Emacs 22.0.92.1 (from http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html)
for months now and haven't noticed any unstability.
Cheers,
weber