Re: Recommended way to work on main without upgrading Org?

[Milan Glacier]

On 12/21/22 19:19, Karthik Chikmagalur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to work on the main branch of Org, with the intent of creating a 
> patch.  However, I need to continue using Org 9.5 for everyday work in a 
> separate Emacs session as I can't have things breaking.  Is there a recommended 
> way to run two simultaneous instances of Emacs using two different Org versions?
>
> I use Straight to install Org 9.5.  I've cloned the latest main branch from 
> Savannah to work on, but I'm not able to test my changes cleanly since there 
> are two org versions in the mix -- technically three including the built-in 
> version that's been shadowed.
>
> Karthik

Try to use emacs-29 which allows you to specify alternative init load
path if you don't want to use chemacs?