RE: Is xemacs dead?

"Dan Bar Dov" <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:22:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
> 
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