RE: Is xemacs dead?
"Dan Bar Dov" <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:30 +0200
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Thanks for answering. I'm with xemacs since Jamie Zawinsky's days (and Gosling emacs before that). And I'd hate to swap. How about a heads-up - what is planned for xemacs? Thanks, Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:56 AM > To: Dan Bar Dov > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is xemacs dead? > > >>>>> "Dan" == Dan Bar Dov <[email protected]> writes: > > Dan> Should I switch to gnu emacs? > > XEmacs development has been hibernating for a while, but > whether to switch depends on what you want from the editor. > For many purposes, GNU has only recently caught up with > XEmacs in most ways, and there will probably be a new major > release of XEmacs in a few months which will have most > recently added GNU features and new XEmacs-only features. > > -- > Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences > http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp > University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 > Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN > My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad > things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults > I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py >