Ubuntu (10.10) offers emacs21,22,23 and emacs-snapshot. What are the differences between them and which one does the emacs
package install by default? Also, I presume emacs-snapshot-gtk
is the most up to date one. I would like to use this because it seems to pay attention to my .Xdefaults
settings, which emacs
doesn't. What disadvantages might this cause?
I use emacs for LaTeX, ORGmode and ESS/R programming.
Best Answer
emacs-snapshot
is a development version of Emacs. It has more goodies but likely also more bugs, so use it at your own risk. The others are released versions; the only reason I can think not to install the latest one is if you're very short on disk space.The
emacs
package depends onemacs23
(you can see the dependencies in any package administration tool).Gtk programs don't use X resources (
.Xdefaults
). Non-gtk (but X) versions of Emacs do.