Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot?

[David Kastrup]

Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:

>    Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
>
>    > Hi Mark,
>    >
>    >    As someone wishing to learn Emacs would you recommend I
>    >    install Emacs 21 or Emacs-snapshot?
>    >
>    > You'd better stick with the current stable aka GNU Emacs 21.4
>
>    It is so much worse in utf-8 support alone that I wonder what you base
>    that recommendation on.
>
> Snapshot is a development version whereas GNU Emacs 21 is a
> *stable* version.

Which does not change the fact that the snapshots have been quite
better and more solid than the "stable" version for years now.  In
particular now that snapshots are released as "pretest" releases.

Can you point to any area, even a single one, where the supposed
"stability" of Emacs 21.4 leads to better results than, say, the
pretest 22.0.99?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum