Bug 1742122

Summary: Update emacs release
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Don Pellegrino <don>
Component: emacsAssignee: Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Version: 7.6   
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Last Closed: 2019-09-03 08:27:38 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Don Pellegrino 2019-08-16 14:59:55 UTC 
RHEL 7 distributes GNU Emacs 24.3.1. This should be upgraded to track upstream more closely.

For the use case of Python development in Emacs, most of the Emacs packages that support auto-completion for Python require Emacs 24.4 or later. For a list of the packages see https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PythonProgrammingInEmacs#toc3. GNU Emacs has moved up to 26.2 (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/). I am unaware of backward compatibility issues that would necessitate holding the emacs package back on 24.3.1.
Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2019-09-03 08:27:38 UTC 
RHEL-7 is currently in Maintenance Support 1. Please, see https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata.