From: d@teklibre.org (Dave Täht)
To: "Jing Su @ Gmail" <Jing.Su.66@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:59:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5u9fj2u.fsf@mahal.sjds.teklibre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAE814C.500@gmail.com> (Jing Su's message of "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:45:48 -0400")
"Jing Su @ Gmail" <Jing.Su.66@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering how to install org-mode for Emacs 21.4.1, which is the
> latest version provided by RHEL 5 and RHEL 4. I even cannot find
> previous releases for Emacs 21 at all, nor on the FAQ. It looks that
> Emacs 21 is no longer supported.
>
> I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date. However, since
> RHEL is one of the mainstream commercial distros, and is common on
> servers, it would be great if org-mode can be consistent with such
> industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ). System
> administrators will take risk to install unofficial org-mode, but most
> of them won't risk the whole server, i.e., risk their necks, for a
> newer but unofficial (according to RH) Emacs version.
>
No, to heck with that. Most serious users of emacs end up compiling
their own release, at least until recently, because the official
releases were so out of date. I would suggest pulling current rpms from
fedora (maybe they have the equivalent of emacs-snapshot?) And tying
those on rhel.
You are talking about going back to the pre-xft fonts and for that
matter, almost-pre-gtk days of emacs here. If your primary usage is on
servers, that's less of an issue, but things like tramp mode work quite
a bit better on more current emacsen.
If there is such a thing as a non-serious user of emacs, no one in their
right mind would want to cope with 21.x.
> Thanks a lot and best regards :)
>
> Jing
--
Dave Taht
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-14 19:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-14 17:45 Emacs 21.4.1 support Jing Su @ Gmail
2009-09-14 18:59 ` Dave Täht [this message]
2009-09-14 20:15 ` tycho garen
2009-09-15 1:10 ` Dave Täht
2009-09-15 1:21 ` Eric Schulte
2009-09-14 19:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-14 20:03 ` Andrew Stribblehill
2009-09-14 22:35 ` Leo
2009-09-14 23:08 ` Carsten Dominik
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