Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-03 Thread Roderick
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018, John M wrote: 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. It is not enough to prevent indentation in Tcl mode. (setq tcl-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap)) is not anymore

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 04:40:53PM -0400, John M wrote: > 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. Yeah. After learning

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread John M
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

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 03:55:31PM +, 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

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, at 11:48 AM, 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. Thanks for the correction. I've just been going by what's available as a package. -- Matthew Graybosch

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Roderick
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

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Solene Rapenne
Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Roderick wrote: > > > > I see, openbsd 6.3 offers Emacs 21.4 as port. May I ask, what is special > > in this old version of Emacs? > > Hi, Rodrigo. I think the maintainers are keeping GNU Emacs 21.4 around > because its graphical

Re: Some highlights: Emacs 21.4 and 25.3

2018-10-02 Thread Matthew Graybosch
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Roderick wrote: > > I see, openbsd 6.3 offers Emacs 21.4 as port. May I ask, what is special > in this old version of Emacs? Hi, Rodrigo. I think the maintainers are keeping GNU Emacs 21.4 around because its graphical version isn't built against GTK, unlike the