I would like to be able to use an older version of Emacs (25.2.2) in a
current distro of Mint (or some other Ubuntu or derivative). The current
version of Emacs in the repos for (eg) Mint 20.2 is 26.3. The 25.2.2
version of Emacs was last distributed for Mint 19.2 (maybe different for
different distributions).
[Reason: 25.2.2 appears to be the last version of the Emacs deb to work
with the psgml package that provided the authorial document-oriented
xml-mode able to parse the DTD, before it was superseded by the less
usable data-oriented xml-mode which only handles RNG.]
Where would I find the .deb that would have been installed by Mint 19.2
in the days when that was current? I tried to work it out by booting
19.2 from USB and installing Emacs but my interpretation of the
arguments to archive.ubuntu.com (bionic, main, amd64, etc) doesn't seem
to lead me to a downloadable .deb file.
It may of course refuse to install, believing that up-to-date versions
of the libraries are not going to support its older exepctations. Fine.
I could try to build from source, but this is notoriously difficult, and
doesn't mesh easily with the Ubuntu way of organising the filesystem.
I need to run Emacs in direct interaction with other software in the
same session, so using a VM is not an option (and this machine is too
slow anyway).
Peter
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