Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > The current release version for Emacs is 23.3. > > I've switched to Emacs24 about half a year ago (they are just now going > into pre-test, so things should stabilize) and it has been smooth > sailing for me, but I'd recommend to keep the 23.3 version around as a > fallback. There are quite a few changes vs. Emacs23 that you may have > to think about, read the NEWS file. I've compiled Emacs24 myself (from > Git), most pre-compiled packages represent a much older state from the > beginning of this year. I've backed out a dodgy change once or twice > and this is so much easier to do in Git; even though there would have > been other workarounds.
Since I always expect unexpected things to happen when upgrading, I would rather go directly to Emacs 24 when its more or less stable already - and thats what it seems to be. I might use the opportunity to change from 32bit to 64bit, from Ubuntu to Arch Linux (which looks good) and from Gnome to Stump-WM. That looks like a nice combination to me. Cheers -- Thorsten
