From: Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>
To: Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Which Emacs on Ubuntu
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:14:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B765F48.70807@manor-farm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c75873c1002130001p4fa751b6k6f70900df32c8299@mail.gmail.com>
Graham Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
As I said the emacs-snapshot package has been entirely stable for me.
The nice thing about Debian based systems is that it's easy to uninstall
stuff if it doesn't work for you.
The only thin I would caution against is mixing Emacs 22 and 23 on the
same system. Usually this is OK. However Emacs 23 has lots of things
built in e.g. epa for encryption, which require extra packages in Emacs
22. Installing the Emacs 22 package for something that is built into
Emacs 23 can sometimes cause problems with Emacs loading the wrong package.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-13 8:14 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
2010-02-13 8:01 ` Graham Smith
2010-02-13 8:14 ` Ian Barton [this message]
2010-02-12 22:10 ` Ben Finney
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