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Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu


From: Ryan Thompson
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:06:30 -0800

Even the most unstable development snapshot of emacs usually beats the
MTBF of any other "stable" component of your operating system or
applications.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ian Barton <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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