Questions tagged [emacs-snapshot]

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Build a minimal Emacs 25 for unit testing

I would like to build a very minimal variant of Emacs trunk for unit-testing my Emacs Lisp package. The build needs no GUI, no image support, etc. It should should essentially just be a minimal Emacs Lisp interpreter with the core Emacs Lisp…
user227
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emacs-snapshot: Could not find simple.el or simple.elc

I tried to install emacs-snapshot through their PPA on a fresh Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot But when i try to start it, it gives me this error:…
DalekSall
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Unable to install emacs-26.3 after removing emacs-28 (stuck without an editor!)

I've installed emacs28 from snapshot (emacs-snapshot-common) without realizing it's the latest bleeding edge and not the latests stable version. I tried installing 26.3 from Kevin Kelly's repo, as described here, but got an error: Unpacking…