Re: XEmacs 21 Forever

   > On 2016-02-16, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <[email protected]> wrote:


   > Well, I maintain my own Unicode fork of 21.4, in the sense that I will
   > keep it running on whatever system I use, which will be Linux for the
   > foreseeable future.
   > At least until somebody convinces me that FSFmacs is stable enough to
   > change to...

I switched to GNU emacs a couple of months ago. Here are my observations
concerning the packages I use most.

    -  auctex: more stable in GNU emacs: but to be fair the culprit
       could be x-symbol which slowed down things quite a bit. GNU emacs (25)
       has now something similar called tex-prettify, which is a bit
       uglier but much faster, since it uses overlays.

    -  gnus: faster in GNU emacs.

    -  org: mode: no difference.

In any case in all three cases GNU emacs provides more features than in
Xemacs, because almost all developers are GNU emacs users and when they
could not add a feature easily in xemacs the left it out with a

(if   (featurep 'xemacs))


Last not least UFT-8 support is better in GNU emacs (and it has BIDI
support).

Uwe Brauer