Personally I use Emacs 25.x on OpenBSD 6.3, with the caveat being that I rely on a number of customizations to normalize behavior to be what I expect. I would suggest using whichever version annoys you the least.
>> And I am tired that in some modes I cannot get emacs to stop >> writing things (like indentation) that I do not type. > > I believe there is a variable to customize for this behaviour. I will > know the variable name when I find it in Elisp code down there in > sources. After that, googling for this name will be very easy. > > Before this happens, I will continue to use 23 and 24 (23 does not > show me indent problem), but I feel prompted to have a look at 21 as > well (but then even more puzzles for dot-emacs). This may be a bit off-topic but the feature responsible for this is 'electric-indent-mode', which is enabled by default in 24.4 or later. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Indent-Convenience.html#index-Electric-Indent-mode Put (electric-indent-mode -1) somewhere in your Emacs configuration when using 24.4 or later. On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:18 PM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:55:31PM +0000, Roderick wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, Solene Rapenne wrote: > > > > >emacs 25 has a X11 flavour -athena which do not use gtk, but you need > > >to build it from ports, there is no package for it. > > > > And indeed I do that. > > > > I thought that perhaps 21.4 is more stable, or less bloated ... > > > > Interessting remains to know, what the reson was. > > Your remarks prompted me to have a look myself - so those are just my > wild guesses, but: > > - a comparison between announcements for 21.1 and 22.1 > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2001-10/msg00009.html > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html > > tells me that support for GTK started with 22.1 - and if so then 21.4 > is the latest bugfixed version without it, while still enabling > color themes (and custom fonts?), which are very nice to have (me > being color abuser). > > - myself, I am using 23 and 24, and comparison of their "concept > index" info nodes shows there are 1582 and 1863 items, > respectively. Some of those new concepts were introduced earlier > and only documented in 24 but this gives a glimpse into amount of > ongoing changes. There are some new Elisp functions in 24 and > various sets of installed Elisp files for each, which makes > supporting them both in my dot-emacs an interesting puzzle (not > always succesfull). > > > And I am tired that in some modes I cannot get emacs to stop > > writing things (like indentation) that I do not type. > > I believe there is a variable to customize for this behaviour. I will > know the variable name when I find it in Elisp code down there in > sources. After that, googling for this name will be very easy. > > Before this happens, I will continue to use 23 and 24 (23 does not > show me indent problem), but I feel prompted to have a look at 21 as > well (but then even more puzzles for dot-emacs). > > My guess is, all those inconveniences are introduced to make more > users into looking under the hood. I have not really cared much about > such detail until I played with elpa too much and had to manually > unkcuf it. > > -- > Regards, > Tomasz Rola > > -- > ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** > ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** > ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** > ** ** > ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** >
