Re: emacs20

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>]

Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:

Christian> Are the different emacses compatible? Last thing I know is
Christian> that emacs and xemacs are not compatible in which case you
Christian> should not provide "emacs".

	I couldn't wait for the official Debian package; I have jst
 built and installed emacs-20.2 (and installed it in /opt ;-); which
 promptly broke everything I had built up. I am in the process if
 removing about 8 years (and 40MB) of scaffolding around emacs that I
 have, and rebuilding my environment from sctratch. (Mostly because
 enough of the guts of Emacs changed that my hacks [some from emacs18
 days]) were no longer viable).

	However, from the news file
======================================================================
* Lisp Changes in Emacs 20.1

** Byte-compiled files made with Emacs 20 will, in general, work in
Emacs 19 as well, as long as the source code runs in Emacs 19.  And
vice versa: byte-compiled files made with Emacs 19 should also run in
Emacs 20, as long as the program itself works in Emacs 20.
======================================================================

	So that means tere are no gross incompatibilities. Things
 _could_ work. I'd not bet on it.

	manoj
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