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Re: emacs19 supported? what about emacs18?



Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org> writes:

> We seem to have the following:
>
>  ~ $ grep-available -Fprovides -spackage emacsen
> package: xemacs21-gnome-mule-canna-wnn
> package: xemacs21-gnome-mule
> package: xemacs21-gnome-nomule
> package: xemacs21-mule
> package: emacs20
> package: emacs21
> package: emacs20-dl
> package: xemacs21-mule-canna-wnn
> package: xemacs21-nomule
>
> That isn't enough flavors!?!

I miss the latest stable XEmacs version, 21.1. (xemacs21 is 21.4 which
is a gamma release and the differences to 21.1 are quite noticable if
you are programming elisp).

>> and it's easier to fully grasp what's going on when we are on older
>> Emacsen...
>
> How so?  Personally, I think that font-lock mode at the console alone
> is enough reason to justify switching to emacs21.  But you're not
> forced to use any of the new features in 20/21 if you don't want to.

At the risk of starting the old flamewar: You are forced to deal with
Mule in emacs20 and emacs21.  Emacs19 is binary clean, I believe Emacs
22 will be binary clean again (using Unicode internally).  But I can
understand if it takes too much resources to support too many
versions.


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