Re: How old are Emacs users?

[Tim X]

Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> writes:

> On 2007-04-27, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tyler Smith wrote:
>>> Neither -Q or -D are recognised options for me, nor can I find
>>> descriptions of them in the emacs printed manual or man
>>> pages... 
>>
>> They are new in Emacs 22 (in beta yet, but hopefully very soon released).
>>
>
> Ah, thanks. I look forward to 22, seems to have a lot of new stuff in
> it. Not quite adventurous enough at the moment to install it myself --
> I'll wait til it makes it's way into debian testing.
>

Note that its quite easy with Debian to run the testing version and have just a
couple of packages from unstable. This is what I do. Only emacs-snapshot (aka
emacs 22) is running from unstable, everything else is from testing. the
apt-get (and aptitude, dselect, etc) are able to handle this automatically. So,
when doing an update, it updates everything from testing except emacs-snapshot,
which it updates from unstable. 

Just mentioning it as its a handy feature when you want to run with the latest
'unstable' package, but don't want to run a system that is based on the
unstable branch for everything. You do need to make some minor changes in the
apt config, but these are very basic and I can supply them if you like.

Tim

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