Emacs version 18

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From: rms
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1986 17:40

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From: rms@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Richard M. Stallman)

I want to remind everyone that Emacs version 18 being distributed now
for *testing*.  Nobody says it is supposed to work.

If you are not a wizard and don't have the skills and time to debug
weird problems, I recommend that you not try to work with version 18
now.  If you are not on the internet and cannot easily copy diffs for
new subversions, that is also probably a reason not to work with
version 18.

Version 18 has been having difficulties on many machines, especially
in unexec, because I have made rearrangements in it to try to make it
easier to port.  Version 17 was ported to many machines using
machine-specific conditionals in the code.  For version 18 I studied
these conditionals and then designed mechanisms that are more portable
or depend on orthogonal and definable configuration parameters.  But
testing on several machines was needed to get the general scheme
debugged.

I will announce here when version 18 is stable.

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