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I'm running Ubuntu 16.04. I installed XEmacs 21.4 (patch 22) I want to use org module BUT fail to install/configure it.

In my case I don't use .emacs but rather I have ~/.xemacs/custom.el where I keep all my settings. org module did not exist originally hence I did this: 

git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git

This created org-mode directory. Then I added these 2 lines to custom.el: 

(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/susja/org-mode/lisp") 
(add-to-list 'load-path "/home/susja/org-mode/contrib/lisp" t)

It did not load org module. Then I ran M-x list-packages and did NOT see org package. Could someone please help me to configure org module in order to handle .org files?

Dan
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susja
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    As far as I know, XEmacs is effectively dead; the version you installed is 7+ years old. I suggest you install [GNU Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html) instead, which is actively developed. My best guess is that `org` relies on newer features that the old XEmacs version you have does not supply. – Dan Jul 07 '16 at 18:10
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    Also XEmacs compatibility code has been removed from the master (dev) branch of org. So org 9.0+ will not support XEmacs. – Kaushal Modi Jul 07 '16 at 19:18

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Well my solution was simple :_ Based on comments I realized that org module is not supported in XEmacs hence I uninstalled XEmacs and installed GNU Emacs. After that I did not have any issues. Thanks for help.

susja
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