Re: Updating to Emacs 24

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 05.10.2011 02:01, schrieb Thorsten:
> Hi List,
> I downloaded the Pretest version of Emacs 24, having Emacs 23.1.1
> installed on Ubuntu. Before I mess up my whole configuration, I thought
> I rather ask a few (quite basic) questions here:
>
> 1. do I have to uninstall Emacs 23.1.1 before installing Emacs 24?
>
> 2. I load most .el files from my .emacs.de, which is in my Dropbox-folder
> and therefore accesible from my Linux and my Win 7 machine, and not from the
> /usr/share/emacs directories - will this configuration be messed up by
> the new installation?
>
> 3. should I change from Ubuntu 32 to 64, are there no problems with the
> 64bit version?
>
> 4. I would really like to try a minimal version of ubuntu 64 with stump-wm
> and Emacs 24. Does anybody has experience with or even an example
> configuration for this combination?
>
> Thanks for any tips
> Cheers

Hi,

should you have enough space: find it much more comfortable running 
different Emacsen locally.

In some seldom cases loading a patched version from still another place.

Cheers,

Andreas