Re: first copy & paste not working

[Rupert Swarbrick]

jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:

>>> A friend of mine advised me, after I found the latest Emacs in Debian
>>> was 21.4, that adding the unstable repositories, and/or Ubuntu
>>> repositories is a must for using up-to-date software on Debian.  Any
>>> Debian users like to comment?
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, well I use it on my laptop because it's fun playing with the new
>> versions. However, something breaks horribly about once every three or
>> four months, so I recommend building from source.
>
> Are you talking about Debian or Emacs?  What is it that breaks, and what
> do you build from source?
>

Sorry I didn't realise how ambiguous that was. I use debian unstable
repositories but (for reasons unconnected with emacs) this
occasionally does dramatic things to the computer, such as stopping X
working.

My recommendation is/was to do this if you enjoy fixing things, but
otherwise to compile emacs from CVS and use that - as others have
said, it's not a difficult process.

Rupert