From: Andrew Stribblehill <ads@wompom.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:03:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f38ae890909141303y59af68bbt545ae3712a20f87e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874or5l4pm.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de>
2009/9/14 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>:
> "Jing Su @ Gmail" <Jing.Su.66@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Jing,
>
>> I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date. However, since
>> RHEL is one of the mainstream commercial distros, and is common on
>> servers, it would be great if org-mode can be consistent with such
>> ``industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ).
>
> Emacs 21.4 is nearly 4 years old! Org-mode uses quite a bunch of more
> or less recent emacs features, so getting it fully working would be
> quite a hassle with a lot of compatibility code.
>
> Maybe an older org-mode version supports emacs 21.4 and has all features
> you need. But I cannot find a downloads page for old versions...
>
> Or get the git version and use the revision before the commit
> 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74.
>
> ,----
> | commit 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74
> | Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
> | Date: Tue Apr 21 14:00:24 2009 +0200
> |
> | End of Emacs 21 support.
> `----
>
>> System administrators will take risk to install unofficial org-mode,
>> but most of them won't risk the whole server, i.e., risk their necks,
>> for a newer but unofficial (according to RH) Emacs version.
>
> You could compile and install emacs in your $HOME. The INSTALL file
> coming with it tells how to do that.
I agree. In fact, when I was a real sysadmin, I used to maintain a
local build of Emacs for my users.
However, I tried compiling the latest org-mode with Emacs 21.4 and
basic functionality works: tab, shift-tab, TODO, the day/week view of
the agenda -- and these are the only things I've tried.
See for yourself how well an org-mode build works and it may turn out
not to be an issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 17:45 Emacs 21.4.1 support Jing Su @ Gmail
2009-09-14 18:59 ` Dave Täht
2009-09-14 20:15 ` tycho garen
2009-09-15 1:10 ` Dave Täht
2009-09-15 1:21 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-14 19:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-14 20:03 ` Andrew Stribblehill [this message]
2009-09-14 22:35 ` Leo
2009-09-14 23:08 ` Carsten Dominik
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