Re: Resources for an old newbie ?

[Emanuel Berg]

Philip Kaludercic wrote:

>> Because, the problem is the repositories are so behind.
>> For example in the Debian repos, xemacs21 is the most
>> "recent" version available ...
>
> That is a bad example: XEmacs 21(.4) /is/ the newest version
> of XEmacs, since there hasn't been a release since 2009.

Yes, it is also unrelated since XEmacs is a fork of, but not
quite, GNU Emacs.

> Depending on what you do, I think that even a release from
> Debian Stable is good enough for most people who aren't into
> core Emacs development.

I did it for many years while doing a lot of things with
Emacs, including Elisp, so it is good enough - I know this
from my own experience - but even better is to use the
latest Emacs.

It makes it so much more fun so it is what I recommend to any
Emacs "fan" - no matter what level, high or low, he or she is
at or believes he or she is at.

This is the most important point - more fun, more excitement
and enthusiasm - but I'll add a practical aspect that happened
to me, sometimes I got answers on this very list ~"do it like
this" and those functions I didn't have, since they hadn't
been added to my older version of Emacs.

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