From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Thompson Subject: Re: Which Emacs on Ubuntu Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:06:30 -0800 Message-ID: <2a4ba2fd1002121306x39603bd6q7fdf589acfa62eb@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c75873c1002121225q545e0d52sde7f625fe4eef134@mail.gmail.com> <4B75BE7A.5070200@manor-farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ng2j0-0001Dw-Ly for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:06:54 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48955 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ng2iy-0001D6-Li for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:06:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng2ix-0000Ny-Rg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:06:52 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f179.google.com ([209.85.223.179]:32808) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng2ix-0000Nr-Ow for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:06:51 -0500 Received: by iwn9 with SMTP id 9so3096181iwn.12 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:06:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B75BE7A.5070200@manor-farm.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ian Barton Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.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 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 =A0with 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 wit= h > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode >