Questions tagged [version-compatibilty]
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How to run multiple versions of emacs for package development?
Is there a set of tools to enable testing a package on multiple Emacs versions.
For example 24.4 is almost released. Can I install it and still safely test my package in 24.1?
How would I deal with a conflicting .emacs.d/?
I came across a repo on…

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How to test for specific Emacs version or newer?
Emacs 24.4 made an incompatible change to interpreter-mode-alist, treating its members now as regular expressions and no longer as simple strings (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=1af4c2203ce7954c089133234ba80e6272ce9458). I…

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How can I find which version of a particular mode I am using?
For example, I want to use a library that requires I am on org-mode version 8 or above. I don't know what version of org-mode I have.
Running M-x version only gives me the emacs version. Is there a command where I can get the org-mode…

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How can I ensure that the minimum version of Emacs used with some code is 28.2?
I'm using this. What other ways are there?
(let ((minver "28.2"))
(when (version< emacs-version minver)
(error "This config requires Emacs v%s or higher." minver)))
;; Load the Emacs Lisp code blocks embedded in the…

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