From: Ryan Thompson <rct@thompsonclan.org>
To: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Which Emacs on Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:06:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a4ba2fd1002121306x39603bd6q7fdf589acfa62eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B75BE7A.5070200@manor-farm.org>
Even the most unstable development snapshot of emacs usually beats the
MTBF of any other "stable" component of your operating system or
applications.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:
> Graham Smith wrote:
>>
>> I have had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, and on going to
>> re-install Emacs, I see lots of choices.
>>
>> As I primarily use Emacs to run Orgmode and I find the list of Emacs
>> options rather confusing, can anyone here suggest which is the best
>> option to install.
>>
>> The key choices seem to be Emacs 22 or 23 with or without GTK.
>>
>> But there is also just an "emacs" option which is described as an
>> Emacs 23 meta package.
>>
>> I realise this may well be an Ubuntu or Emacs question, but as I said
>> my main use for Emacs is Orgmode, so I think some advice from here may
>> be useful.
>>
>> So any help would be appreciated.
>>
>
> I use the emacs-snapshot ppa from
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa. I had some problems with
> the Ubuntu Emacs 23 package (menu drawing, etc). However, these have
> probably been fixed by now.
>
> The snapshot is a bleeding edge version of Emacs, so you can expect bug
> fixes and new bugs - best of both worlds! Having said that I haven't
> encountered any bugs that affected me.
>
> Ian.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-12 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 20:25 Which Emacs on Ubuntu Graham Smith
2010-02-12 20:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-12 20:46 ` Graham Smith
2010-02-12 22:13 ` Ben Finney
2010-02-13 8:05 ` Graham Smith
2010-02-12 20:47 ` Ian Barton
2010-02-12 21:06 ` Ryan Thompson [this message]
2010-02-13 8:01 ` Graham Smith
2010-02-13 8:14 ` Ian Barton
2010-02-12 22:10 ` Ben Finney
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