Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> And the second tip just adds even more barriers at this
> beginner level. It might be fun and exciting to use the
> newest sources, but this is definitely not related to
> learning Emacs - it's distracting and unnecessary unless you
> are very excited and have a lot of time. One can do this
> later or. It's not good to advice people to do this -
> especially beginners.

People tend to care about 1-3 programs, if one of those are
Emacs then I think one should get the newest version
and source, definitely. It isn't difficult, actually.

Because, the problem is the repositories are so behind.
For example in the Debian repos, xemacs21 is the most "recent"
version available ...

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