Re: [Orgmode] Which Emacs on Ubuntu

[Ian Barton]

Graham Smith wrote:
> Ian,
>
> > 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.
>
> Given my limited experience with Ubuntu I am always a bit nervous with
> bleeding edge but equally there is some confusion in Synaptic with
> versions. However, this confusion is well and truly a Ubuntu issues
> and  well off topic.
As I said the emacs-snapshot package has been entirely stable for me. 
The nice thing about Debian based systems is that it's easy to uninstall 
stuff if it doesn't work for you.

The only thin I would caution against is mixing Emacs 22 and 23 on the 
same system. Usually this is OK. However Emacs 23 has lots of things 
built in e.g. epa for encryption, which require extra packages in Emacs 
22. Installing the Emacs 22 package for something that is built into 
Emacs 23 can sometimes cause problems with Emacs loading the wrong package.

Ian.