Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu

[Ian Barton]

Graham Smith wrote:
> I have had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, and on going to
> re-install Emacs, I see lots of choices.
>
> As I primarily use Emacs to run Orgmode and I find the list of Emacs
> options rather confusing, can anyone here suggest which is the best
> option to install.
>
> The key choices seem to be Emacs 22 or 23  with or without GTK.
>
> But there is also just an "emacs" option which is described as an
> Emacs 23 meta package.
>
> I realise this may well be an Ubuntu or Emacs question, but as I said
> my main use for Emacs is Orgmode, so I think some advice from here may
> be useful.
>
> So any help would be appreciated.

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.

Ian.