2009/9/14 Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org>: > "Jing Su @ Gmail" <jing.su...@gmail.com> writes: > > Hi Jing, > >> I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date. However, since >> RHEL is one of the mainstream commercial distros, and is common on >> servers, it would be great if org-mode can be consistent with such >> ``industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ). > > Emacs 21.4 is nearly 4 years old! Org-mode uses quite a bunch of more > or less recent emacs features, so getting it fully working would be > quite a hassle with a lot of compatibility code. > > Maybe an older org-mode version supports emacs 21.4 and has all features > you need. But I cannot find a downloads page for old versions... > > Or get the git version and use the revision before the commit > 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74. > > ,---- > | commit 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74 > | Author: Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> > | Date: Tue Apr 21 14:00:24 2009 +0200 > | > | End of Emacs 21 support. > `---- > >> System administrators will take risk to install unofficial org-mode, >> but most of them won't risk the whole server, i.e., risk their necks, >> for a newer but unofficial (according to RH) Emacs version. > > You could compile and install emacs in your $HOME. The INSTALL file > coming with it tells how to do that.
I agree. In fact, when I was a real sysadmin, I used to maintain a local build of Emacs for my users. However, I tried compiling the latest org-mode with Emacs 21.4 and basic functionality works: tab, shift-tab, TODO, the day/week view of the agenda -- and these are the only things I've tried. See for yourself how well an org-mode build works and it may turn out not to be an issue. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
