Thanks for the reply.

 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<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa>everything works as expected using the same .emacs.
>

What is the difference between the emacs23 and emacs-snapshot-gtk packages?


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:

>
>  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<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa>everything works as expected using the same .emacs.
>
> Ian.
>