Even the most unstable development snapshot of emacs usually beats the MTBF of any other "stable" component of your operating system or applications.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Ian Barton <li...@manor-farm.org> wrote: > Graham Smith wrote: >> >> I have had to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, and on going to >> re-install Emacs, I see lots of choices. >> >> As I primarily use Emacs to run Orgmode and I find the list of Emacs >> options rather confusing, can anyone here suggest which is the best >> option to install. >> >> The key choices seem to be Emacs 22 or 23 with or without GTK. >> >> But there is also just an "emacs" option which is described as an >> Emacs 23 meta package. >> >> I realise this may well be an Ubuntu or Emacs question, but as I said >> my main use for Emacs is Orgmode, so I think some advice from here may >> be useful. >> >> So any help would be appreciated. >> > > I use the emacs-snapshot ppa from > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-elisp/+archive/ppa. I had some problems with > the Ubuntu Emacs 23 package (menu drawing, etc). However, these have > probably been fixed by now. > > The snapshot is a bleeding edge version of Emacs, so you can expect bug > fixes and new bugs - best of both worlds! Having said that I haven't > encountered any bugs that affected me. > > Ian. > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
