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Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux
From: |
Tyler Smith |
Subject: |
Re: How to choose the right emacs on Ubuntu Linux |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:34:19 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Maindoor <sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com> writes:
> |But now since emacs itself supports anti-aliasing fonts, I'm now |
> |left with a dilemma, which one to use. |
> |So next I went to find proof of which is latest and bleeding edge. |
> |and saw the version. emacs-snapshot is of course the |
> |latest(23.1.50.1) |
> |but uses the old GTK+ (2.18.0) version. The emacs package |
> |version is older (23.1.1) but uses a newer GTK+ (2.20.0) version. |
> |Can someone provide the pros and cons of each and which |
> |one might be better to use ? |
The difference between 23.1.50.1 and 23.1.1 are unlikely to be
noticeable to you unless you already have a specific problem with
23.1.1. Similarly, I don't think you'd notice any difference between
GTK+ 2.18.0 and 2.20.0. Just pick one.
If you are really concerned about using the bleeding edge, you can get
the latest development version here:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/
It's not too difficult to compile it from source yourself, and it seems
to work just fine. The latest version is somewhere beyond 24.0.50.1 (I
haven't updated in a few weeks).
Cheers,
Tyler