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Re: [Orgmode] Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support
From: |
Andrew Stribblehill |
Subject: |
Re: [Orgmode] Re: Emacs 21.4.1 support |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:03:30 +0100 |
2009/9/14 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> "Jing Su @ Gmail" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Jing,
>
>> I fully understand that Emacs 21 is way out of date. However, since
>> RHEL is one of the mainstream commercial distros, and is common on
>> servers, it would be great if org-mode can be consistent with such
>> ``industrial standard'' (which is always way out of date :S ).
>
> Emacs 21.4 is nearly 4 years old! Org-mode uses quite a bunch of more
> or less recent emacs features, so getting it fully working would be
> quite a hassle with a lot of compatibility code.
>
> Maybe an older org-mode version supports emacs 21.4 and has all features
> you need. But I cannot find a downloads page for old versions...
>
> Or get the git version and use the revision before the commit
> 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74.
>
> ,----
> | commit 31858e5c39404cf2bc745fe05f59c7ce6816db74
> | Author: Carsten Dominik <address@hidden>
> | Date: Tue Apr 21 14:00:24 2009 +0200
> |
> | End of Emacs 21 support.
> `----
>
>> System administrators will take risk to install unofficial org-mode,
>> but most of them won't risk the whole server, i.e., risk their necks,
>> for a newer but unofficial (according to RH) Emacs version.
>
> You could compile and install emacs in your $HOME. The INSTALL file
> coming with it tells how to do that.
I agree. In fact, when I was a real sysadmin, I used to maintain a
local build of Emacs for my users.
However, I tried compiling the latest org-mode with Emacs 21.4 and
basic functionality works: tab, shift-tab, TODO, the day/week view of
the agenda -- and these are the only things I've tried.
See for yourself how well an org-mode build works and it may turn out
not to be an issue.