>>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier via General discussion of VM mail reader >>>>> <[email protected]> writes:
>>>> Thanks for your thoughts. What version of emacs is in Ubuntu 20? >>> My laptop (on Xubuntu 20.04.6) has emacs 26.3. (I don't use emacs, so I >>> probably haven't done anything to update it past whatever comes with >>> the distribution.) >>> And if I install emacs on my personal Debian 11 server, I get 27.1 >> >> The "Long Term Support" versions of Ubuntu are every 2 years and have >> 5 years of support. Ubuntu 20.04 will be EOL in April of next year, so >> that's 9 months, and maybe not worth the effort. Ubuntu 22.04 (with emacs >> 27) is still heavily used. 24.04 has recently come out, and has emacs 29. > FWIW, so far in my cleanups I tried to remove only the compatibility > code for Emacs<22. Of course past experience suggests that I > probably inadvertently broke compatibility with some more recent > versions. But I'd be surprised if it's not compatible with at least > Emacs-24 and any incompatibility should be easy to fix once > reported. So far it's been working well. > As I mentioned earlier, the desire to preserve compatibility with XEmacs > ensures or at least encourages to preserve compatibility with older > Emacsen as well. Not sure it's worth it... but since it takes work to remove stuff, unless it's in the way I'd leave it too. My current issues (which I need to open issues on) are - When I hit space to view a message (which I have turned off by default, showing only headers generally, I will get "Internal display failed; use external viewer? (y or n) " which just slows things down because now I have to answer 'n' since my external viewer blows up too. - I'm seeing alot more messages when saving a group of messages to another IMAP folder using "M N w" (I have 'w' bound to vm-save-message-to-imap-folder) so I see a bunch more messages about the various IMAP phases being done. It's not a problem per-se, it's just annoying that it's so chatty.
