Re: [Orgmode] Emacs 21.4.1 support

[Dave Täht]

"Jing Su @ Gmail" <address@hidden> 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 I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date.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 industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ).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releases were so out of date.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

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