Re: Question on updating to 29.1

[Petteri Hintsanen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> The Emacs installation method is designed in a way that allows you to
> have several Emacs versions installed on the same system.  Only one of
> them, the one you installed the last, is invoked by the name "emacs",
> but all the others can be invoked by their numbered names, as in
> "emacs-28.2" etc.  An installed version of Emacs will only be removed
> if you explicitly run "make uninstall" in the build directory of that
> version.

I was not aware of this feature.  It sounds very useful indeed.  Over the
years, I have routinely done "make uninstall" before upgrading to new Emacs.

Thanks,
Petteri