Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmaga...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi, > > I'm trying to work on the main branch of Org, with the intent of creating a > patch. However, I need to continue using Org 9.5 for everyday work in a > separate Emacs session as I can't have things breaking. Is there a > recommended > way to run two simultaneous instances of Emacs using two different Org > versions? > > I use Straight to install Org 9.5. I've cloned the latest main branch from > Savannah to work on, but I'm not able to test my changes cleanly since there > are > two org versions in the mix -- technically three including the built-in > version > that's been shadowed. > > Karthik I got curious and tried it myself. References are the emacs manpage in my system and this message in the mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2022-12/msg00520.html). $ cd $(mktemp -d) $ git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/org-mode.git $ make -C org-mode $ emacs -Q -L org-mode/lisp -l org --batch --eval "(call-interactively #'org-version)" Org mode version 9.6 (release_9.6-126-gf731d4 @ /tmp/tmp.1wPdM68xpD/org-mode/lisp/) At the last step, if you remove everything after --batch, you will have a clean-slate Emacs with nothing but org loaded.
