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From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
Subject: Re: [off-topic] emacs23 or emacs-snapshot-gtk (Ubuntu)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:19:50 +0000
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> 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 everything works as 
expected using the same .emacs.

Ian.