Re: update Emacs (was: Re: Set major mode for all visited files by extension)

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 4, 2020, at 15:09, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text 
> editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> 
>> How to you update Emacs?
> 
> Interesting question, Emacs 26 is what's in the
> Debian Buster repos (Debian GNU/Linux 10) so that's
> what I have, specifically-specifically version
> 1:26.1+1-3.2+deb10u1 of the emacs package which
> contains Emacs version
> 
>  GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) of
>  2019-09-23, modified by Debian
> 
> I don't know, how is one suppose to update it?

Sorry, I mean that when you update Emacs you have to kill your running 
instance, correct ? Because a new version of Emacs contains code that can't 
simply be reinterpreted live, right ?


Jean-Christophe Helary
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