Re: what I should do, and the "Emacs News Ezine"

[Emanuel Berg]

Van L wrote:

>> To you, I don't seem strong enough on
>> reflexive muscle memory and learning focus?
>
> The sense you give from how you've
> accumulated a useful emacs24lisp codelibrary
> is that you are a messy and not a neat
> personality type.

? So do tell, what's the correct way to
"accumulate useful code libraries"?

BTW I'm now on Emacs 25 [1]. The transition was
all but seamless with the new system
version [2]. I like the repository approach much
better than compiling a bunch of stuff
manually, even tho that is very easy, at least
for Emacs.

Actually one can get a more recent version of
Emacs (or whatever is in the repos) with
atp-get/aptitude as well, for specific targets,
with so-called apt pinning [3]. Here is an
example how to do it for w3m-el-snapshot:

    1) add 'testing' to /etc/apt/sources.list,
       in my case

        deb [arch=armhf] http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing 
main contrib non-free rpi

    2) then in /etc/apt/preferences

        Package: *
        Pin: release a=testing
        Pin-Priority: -10

        Package: w3m-el-snapshot
        Pin: release a=testing
        Pin-Priority: 800

    3) update and install/upgrade with
    apt-get/aptitude


[1] GNU Emacs 25.1.1
    (arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf, GTK+ Version
    3.22.11) of 2017-09-16, modified by Debian

[2] Linux raspberrypi 4.9.35-v7+ #1014 SMP Fri
    Jun 30 14:47:43 BST 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux

    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID:     Raspbian
    Description:        Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch)
    Release:    9.8
    Codename:   stretch

    Revision    : a02082

    PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
    NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
    VERSION_ID="9"
    VERSION="9 (stretch)"
    ID=raspbian
    ID_LIKE=debian
    HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/";
    SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums";
    BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs";

[3] https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences

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