why so many emacs version packages?

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Subject: why so many emacs version packages?
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:44:57 +0200

Hi!

I'm wondering what the point of all the emacs versions is that we have
in pkgsrc.

We have:

emacs20
emacs21
emacs26
emacs27
emacs28
emacs29
emacs-snapshot (which is currently older than emacs29)

and two xemacs versions:

xemacs
xemacs-current

In the time I've been using, I was always happy with the latest
version of emacs. Can someone please explain what the advantages of
the older versions are?
 Thomas

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