SabreWolfy <sabrewo...@gmail.com> writes: > The latest stable release of Emacs is 24.3.1, which does not contain Org > version 8? Therefore, using Org 8 requires (manual) installation? I am using > a modified version of Emacs on Mac, with ESS and other packages > pre-installed. This version has Org 7.9.3 though :(
This is because Emacs 24.3.1 was released before Org 8 was released. Org 8 will ship with the next release, Emacs 24.4. Alternatively you can update to Org 8 via elpa. (M-x list-packages). Regards, -- Nicolas.