From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Graham Smith Subject: Re: Which Emacs on Ubuntu Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:01:56 +0000 Message-ID: <2c75873c1002130001p4fa751b6k6f70900df32c8299@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c75873c1002121225q545e0d52sde7f625fe4eef134@mail.gmail.com> <4B75BE7A.5070200@manor-farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NgCwx-0004SG-L3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:59 -0500 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50230 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NgCww-0004Rp-II for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:58 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgCwv-0003CA-P3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:58 -0500 Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.78.150]:22374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NgCwv-0003C2-JQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:57 -0500 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so943719eyg.34 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:01:56 -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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Ian, > 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. Given my limited experience with Ubuntu I am always a bit nervous with bleeding edge but equally there is some confusion in Synaptic with versions. However, this confusion is well and truly a Ubuntu issues and well off topic. Graham